Christian Bale has been dropped in just about every setting and movie role you can think of. They throw him on a plastic poncho and kill him with an ax in American Psycho. She got into the bat suit and roamed around Gotham City in The dark knight trilogy. He jogged in the Boston ring and jumped out of windows in The fighter. Now Bale will investigate a murder in gothic New York in the 19th century and team up with Edgar Allan Poe.
Based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Louis Bayard, pale blue eye, will stream on Netflix and be released in select theaters. The film is written and directed by Scott Cooper, who is no stranger to the thriller/horror genre. Cooper co-wrote and directed the 2021 supernatural thriller Antlers. The filmmaker has paired with Christian Bale before in the solid revenge thriller. out of the oven and the western hostile. The director also directed Jeff Bridges’ Oscar-winning turn in Crazy Heart.
Here’s everything we know so far about the Pale Blue Eye.
The Pale Blue Eye: The Plot
The novel’s story follows a retired detective out of retirement to investigate the murder of a cadet at West Point Academy in 1830. The character, Augustus Landor, meets a young Edgar Allan Poe and joins the investigative prodigy. to solve the case.
We don’t know much more about the plot of the film, but the novel offers more details of the original story. The description on the back cover of the HarperCollins book, as well as the synopsis, take an extremely grim, chilling, and bloody look at the source material. pale blue eye. It reads:
“At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October afternoon is shattered by the discovery of the body of a young cadet hanging from a rope just off the parade ground. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regime like West Point, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone sneaked into the room where the body lay and removed the heart. With no answers and desperate to avoid any negative publicity, the Academy enlists the services of a local civilian, Augustus Landor, a former police detective who has made a name for himself. him during his years in New York City before retiring to the Hudson Highlands for health reasons. Now a widower and restless in his seclusion, Landor agrees to take on the case. While questioning the dead man’s acquaintances, he finds an enthusiastic assistant in a scheming, moody young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from story to story. The cadet’s name? Edgar Allan Poe. Impressed with Poe’s astute powers of observation, Landor is convinced that the poet can prove useful, if he can stay sober long enough to test his keen reasoning skills. Working closely, the two men, separated by years but equally intelligent, develop a surprisingly deep relationship as their investigation leads them into a hidden world of secret societies, ritual sacrifices, and more bodies. Soon, however, the macabre murders and Landor’s own buried secrets threaten to tear the two men and their newly formed friendship apart.”
pale blue eye sounds like something Poe himself would have written by candlelight with its gothic setting and bloody backstory.
The Pale Blue Eye: The Cast
Christian Bale leads the cast of pale blue eye as Detective Augustus Landor, who, according to other descriptions in the novel, is widowed, retires due to illness, and goes insane. The character wants to get back to the heart of the investigation, and the West Point Academy case is the perfect opportunity to dust off his deductive skills.
While most details about the other characters have not been revealed, the film does feature some legendary names. Gillian Anderson (x-files) returns to the supernatural chair in an unnamed role. Robert Duvall will also appear in the film, as well as Toby Jones (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and Timothy Spall (spencer). The only other named character is the master of the macabre himself, Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit).
The cast is completed by Charlie Tahan (Ozarks), Hadley Robinson (Utopia), Brennan Keel Cook (take the night), Fred Hechinger (the white lotus), and others.
Release date
pale blue eye will see a limited theatrical release on December 23, 2022, presumably to sneak into the Oscar race at the last minute. It will then stream on Netflix on January 6, 2023. Although there are so far very few details about the film, with its cast, director, and Poe-inspired mayhem, pale blue eye it has a lot of promise to be a gothic horror classic.
