CUSACK PETTING THE PHYLOGENETIC PET IN THE RAVEN

Babbling all about the Twilight Saga earlier it became rather obvious that I'm a huge fan of Edgar Allan Poe and I've been very anxious for the 2011 release of The Raven, starring John Cusack as Poe. However judging whether they chose to cast Cusack because he too is an absinthe drinking, opium smoker with a haunted mind and an interest set on mysticism, or due to the striking resemblance?

But, everyone has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and I am just hoping for the best and that for once, this will not be a screw up. That they will skip the whole modern drama and just grab a whole of that macabre side of the Romantic Movement, trashing transcendentalism and appraising pseudosciences. (Yet again my science hounding.) As well as proving me wrong when I doubt that:

1. A blond, 29-year old Alice Eve (which last performance could be seen in Sex and the City 2) will fit to play Virginia Clemm, Poe's dark haired, 13 year old cousin whom he married but who ended up dying from tuberculosis (or cholera, vapors, rabies, brain congestion, smallpox, or similar 19th century plagues) 12 years later.

2. Releasing pictures of Cusack portraying Edgar Allan Poe with a raven as his pet? Enough with the modernization. The Raven is a projection of emotions and represents the obsession with the conflict between remembering and forgetting. It's a symbol of the consequences of such battle which leads to losing ones love, it's not a pet.

3. The entire story plot, where Virginia gets kidnapped by a serial killer who's obsessed with Poe's fiction and mimicking it by killing accordingly, which turns into a witty hunting game with Poe as the sharp detective on a mission to safe his wife's life. It sounds like the perfect detective-biopic. The problem was that Poe was a drawn back and financially troubled drug addict writing fiction about cases ('Murders in the Rue Morgue', claimed to be the first modern detective story), not raging the streets acting them out.

So, please prove me wrong. Please be something worthy of critical acclaim.