"With enough patience, the suspect will often interrogate himself," Christian Bale's world-weary detective growls in the latest trailer for the upcoming Netflix gothic horror murder mystery, The Pale Blue Eye. Released via YouTube courtesy of the streaming giant, this latest look at the film teases an intense thriller with Christian Bale as its center. Check out the new trailer for The Pale Blue Eye below.
Adapted from Louis Bayard's 2006 novel of the same name, The Pale Blue Eye will take audiences to West Point in the year 1830 as it follows veteran detective Augustus Landor (Bale). Tasked with investigating a series of murders at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, Landor finds himself stymied by the cadets’ code of silence. Thus, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Able to solicit confessions from suspects using nothing more than a piercing look, the role of Detective Landor looks tailor-made for Christian Bale. Looking unkempt and harboring an eerie thousand-yard stare, The Pale Blue Eye should give the Academy Award-winning actor a chance to demonstrate once again why he is considered one of the greatest actors of all time.
Backing him up is Harry Potter and The Queen Gambit star Harry Melling, whose young Edgar Allen Poe is sent in undercover by Landor to keep watch on his fellow military cadets. And perhaps discover a murderer in the process. "I believe the dead haunt us because we love them too little," says an oddly upbeat Poe in the latest footage. Clearly, his poetic way with words and passion for the macabre began at an early age.
The Pale Blue Eye is Due to Land on Netflix on January 6, 2023
The Pale Blue Eye is helmed by Crazy Heart, Black Mass, and Antlers director Scott Cooper, who wanted to bring Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel to the screen for over a decade. The Netflix project finds the filmmaker once again uniting with the talents of Christian Bale, with the pair having previously collaborated on the likes of Out of the Furnace and Hostiles. Cooper and Bale look to be the perfect pair to finally bring this delightfully dark and dreary tale to life.
The Pale Blue Eye has amassed a stellar cast alongside Bale and Melling. It features Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Toby Jones (The Wonder), 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, Widows).
The Pale Blue Eye is scheduled to be released in select theaters on December 23, 2022, and will then be released on Netflix on January 6, 2023.