The upcoming Poe project
It’s amazing to see Jeremy Renner’s career finally take off, especially after toiling in the TV trenches then starring in the serial killer biopic Dahmer and 28 Weeks Later. Now he’s receiving acclaim for his turn in The Hurt Locker and we say good for him! The man deserves it. But the question now is: What’s he doing next?
Peter Berg’s big budget Battleship might be on the horizon, but in a New York Times article it states:
But first he’ll squeeze in indie “Raven,” a period thriller with Ewan McGregor in talks to co-star. “(‘Locker’ has) allowed me to exhale and go, ‘OK, now I can really start,'” Renner says. “Maybe it’s a form of arrival, maybe it’s a type of beginning.”
Raven. As in The Raven from filmmaker James McTiegue? If so, this is the first casting news we’ve heard about this upcoming Edgar Allan Poe project and the Renner/McGregor pairing is great. In Raven, a serial killer terrorizes 1850’s Baltimore, using Poe’s stories as his methodology. He leaves clues at each murder leaving it up to Poe to find him before he kills again.
Source: NY Times
