Viggo Poe?

Slash Film is reporting that Viggo Mortensen has been asked to play Edgar Allen Poe in Sylvester Stallone’s new biopic, imaginatively named Poe.

This to me isn’t the big news. The absolutely, monstrously-huge, can’t-wrap-my-head-around-it, biggest news of all time is…the biopic is going to be directed and written by Sly himself. Sly is going to write a biopic of one of America’s most beloved and articulate poets. Sly.

Damn.

Let’s hope he chooses to use the poet’s own words…

L8r g8rs.