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“Down, down, down came the hot thrashing flurry,” whispers a young Edgar Allen Poe, who is tasked with working alongside a veteran detective in the haunting first trailer for Netflix’s gothic murder mystery, The Pale Blue Eye. Released courtesy of the official Netflix YouTube channel, The Pale Blue Eye stars Academy Award winner and celebrated actor Christian Bale as detective Augustus Landor, with Harry Potter alumni Harry Melling starring as a young man who just so happens to be real-life legendary writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Check out the first trailer The Pale Blue Eye below.
“Darkest night, black with hell-charneled fury,” Poe continues, coating the already grittily muted images with even more ominous terror. “Leaving only…that deathly pale blue eye.” Adapted from Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel of the same name, The Pale Blue Eye will transport audiences to West Point in 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Directed by Scott Cooper, who has wanted to bring Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel to the screen for more than a decade, The Pale Blue Eye finds the filmmaker once again uniting with the talents of Christian Bale. Cooper has previously worked with Bale on the likes of Out of the Furnace and Hostiles and has become known for his affinity for grimly powerful storytelling. Certainly, Cooper and Bale look to be the perfect fit for The Pale Blue Eye.
The Pale Blue Eye has amassed a stellar cast alongside Bale and Melling, and features Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Toby Jones (First Cow), 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).
Christian Bale Has Teased All Manner of Twists & Turns in The Pale Blue Eye
Christian Bale has teased all manner of twists and turns in The Pale Blue Eye, hinting that nobody – apart from Poe – is really who they seem. “Every character in the story has secrets,” Bale says of the many mysteries, both murderous and more personal, in The Pale Blue Eye. “And while Poe seems to be the one who is clearly putting on a performance, he is actually the most sincere. Everyone else is more quietly putting on a performance, but no one is who they are pretending to be.”
Director Scott Cooper meanwhile hopes to have crafted both a classic whodunit tale and an effective father-and-son story. “I thought, Okay, I have an opportunity to do three things with this film: Fashion a whodunit, a father and son love story, and then a Poe origin story,” the filmmaker says. “Poe at this young age was quite warm and witty and humorous and very Southernly. The experiences that I’m putting forth in this film led him down the darker paths that we have come to know him for.”
Directed by Scott Cooper, The Pale Blue Eye is scheduled to be released in select cinemas on December 23, 2022, before its Netflix release on January 6, 2023.
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