New pics of John Cusack as Poe

USA Today has released two more stills of John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe in V for Vendetta director’s still untitled Poe film (which was once called The Raven).

The James McTiegue film is a gritty thriller in which Edgar Allan Poe  joins forces with a young Baltimore detective to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders.

The film also stars Brendan Gleeson, Luke Evans, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Alice Eve.