Written and directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”), “The Pale Blue Eye” has received its first official look on Netflix, along with news of its January 6, 2023 release date.
Before that, however, there will be a limited theatrical screening, starting December 23 this year.
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First look at Christian Bale in Scott Cooper’s ‘THE PALE BLUE EYE’.
The gothic thriller follows a detective investigating a series of murders in 1830 with a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe.
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‘The Pale Blue Eye’ adapts the work of Louis Bayard, while also marking a new collaboration between Cooper and star Christian Bale (‘Thor: Love and Thunder’).
According to the official description, Bale plays retired detective Augustus Landor, assigned to investigate a series of murders that took place in the 1830s at the United States Military Academy.
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Of particular interest to audiences is that Edgar Allan Poe is a central character in the story, and it was recently revealed that Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter franchise) will be playing him.
Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Toby Jones (Atomica), Harry Lawtey (Industry), Simon McBurney (Carnival Row), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Hadley Robinson ( Moxie), Joey Brooks (Molly’s Game), Brennan Cook (Encounter), Gideon Glick (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus), Matt Helm (Tragedy of Macbeth), Steven Maier (The Plot Against America), Charlie Tahan (Ozark) and Robert Duvall (The Judge) also star.