The teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye features Harry Melling as Edgar Allan Poe and Christian Bale as a detective who turns to Poe for help solving a murder. The Pale Blue Eye is based on the book by Louis Bayard and is not inspired by true events, even though the plot seems plausible.
Joining Bale and Melling are Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, and Timothy Spall. Joey Brooks, Brennan Cook, Gideon Glick, Fred Hechinger, Matt Helm, Jack Irving, Steven Maier, Charlie Tahan, and Robert Duvall also star.
Scott Cooper adapted and directed The Pale Blue Eye which reunites the award-winning filmmaker with his Out of the Furnace and Hostiles star Christian Bale. Cooper, Bale, Tyler Thompson, and John Lesher produce, and Tracey Landon, Dylan Weathered, Louis Bayard, Chris Sharp, Jennifer Lamb, Emily Salveson, and Ryan Smith executive produce.
Netflix will release The Pale Blue Eye in select theaters on December 23, 2022 followed by a release on the streaming service on January 6, 2023.
The Plot:
West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Bale), to solve the murder.
Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry—a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Melling).
