Idris Elba’s production company sets up book adaptation Poe Must Die as trilogy

Publishers Weekly reports that actor and filmmaker Idris Elba – who I’m still waiting to become the first Black James Bond – is developing Marc Olden’s historic thriller Poe Must Die as a trilogy through his Green Door Production Company. Published in 1978, Poe Must Die is set in New York City in the 1840s, ….

First image revealed of John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven

Relativity Media has released the first image of John Cusack as the tormented Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven, which opens in theaters on March 9, 2012. In the gritty thriller The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe (John Cusack from Being John Malkovich) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans from Immortals) to hunt ….

Edgar Allan Poe poem Annabel Lee adapted into indie suspense feature film

In this, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, a feature film adaptation of his renowned macabre poem “Annabel Lee” will have its world premiere on Thursday, June 11, as the closing night selection of the Dances with Films independent film festival. It will screen at the Laemmle’s Sunset 5 in West ….

Lunacy (Sileni) Trailer

Lunacy is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s stories The Premature Burial and The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether. The film is the latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (Little Otik) is inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In nineteenth-century France a young man, Jean Berlot, is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. ….