James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) is currently at Comic-Con in San Diego, drumming up support for his latest thriller The Raven, the poster for which we brought you only yesterday. That poster seems to very much have a style all its own and has raised considerable interest from me, where little previously existed. Aaron Ryder, production head at FilmNation Entertainment, is seemingly so pleased with McTeigue’s work on The Raven that he is also producing his next outing, “Message From The King”:-
“After working with James on The Raven and then seeing a cut of the film, it was very clear to us that we needed to make his next movie.”
Message From The King, from a script by Oliver Butcher (Dr Jekyll & Ms Hyde, Unknown) and Stephen Cornwell (Killing Streets and, erm, Unknown as well) tells of Jacob King, an “enigmatic outsider”, come to LA to look into the sudden disappearance of his sister. Are outsiders always enigmatic? Is every disappearance sudden. We need answers people.
In the meantime, it looks as though filming will kick off much later in the year, with FilmNation distributing and no-one as yet on board to star. No doubt that will change soon, especially if The Raven is well received.
