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After his new film Amsterdam, Christian Bale is currently wrapped up in another murder mystery. Now, however, he’s working with Edgar Allan Poe.
On the dot for the spooky season, EW revealed the first footage from his next film, The Pale Blue Eye.
Bale plays a local detective probing a killing in 1830 at the West Point military school. His sidekick is no other than the upcoming author of the pieces “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
Harry Melling, widely known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter movie series, portrays Poe.
“Down, down, down came the hot thrashing flurry,” the writerly cadet (Melling) says at one point. “Darkest night, black with hell-charneled fury, leaving only that deathly pale blue eye.”
The film chronicles Bale’s Augustus Landor calling West Point following a cadet being discovered dead in the dawn of a winter day. The dead man’s heart has been skillfully extracted. However, the code of silence binding the recruits makes it harder to find any leads.
Therefore, Augustus taps Poe – a cadet with a talent for poetry.
Scott Cooper directs the film. Bale has previously worked with the director on movies like Out of the Furnace and Hostiles.
The Pale Blue Eye is inspired by the novel of the same title by writer Louis Bayard. Furthermore, the first footage shows the supporting characters.
It includes Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall, and Robert Duvall.
The Pale Blue Eye will premiere in some theaters this December 23 and on Netflix on January 6.
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The Pale Blue Eye Timeline
In February 2021, the production announced Christian Bale would play a character in the film The Pale Blue Eye. It is Bale and Cooper’s third movie together. Additionally, the two were set to produce with John Lesher and Tyler Thompson.
Later, they announced that Netflix pre-bought the film’s rights for approximately $55 million at the European Film Market on March 6, 2021.
Production started on November 29, 2021, at Laughlintown, Pennsylvania’s historic Compass Inn.
In addition, they revealed another set of casts. And it included Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Timothy Spall, Fred Hechinger, and Robert Duvall.
Bale on the Move
Bale is famous for the roles of physical transformations. In addition, he has played the leading man in movies of different genres.
Furthermore, he has earned several awards including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Forbes also included him in its list of highest-paid actors in 2014.
His known films include 2000’s American Psycho, 2004’s Machinist, 2005’s Batman Begins, 2008’s The Dark Knight, and 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises.
Some other films he has starred in include The Prestige (2006), Terminator Salvation (2009), Public Enemies (2009), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
The actor has had massive industry exposure since his breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun in 1987 at 13 years old.
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