The Pale Blue Eye | Christian Bale appears in the film’s first stills; Look

The film will tell the story of Edgar Allan Poe

Star Chrisrtian Bale appeared alongside Harry Melling in the first images of The Pale Blue Eye, a film about writer Edgar Allan Poe. Bale plays Detective Augustus Landor, while Melling plays the writer.

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‘The Pale Blue Eye’ features a rare return to the screen for 91-year-old Robert Duvall, a longtime friend of filmmaker Scott Cooper’s.

“He’s been a mentor of mine for a long time,” says Cooper. “We’ve acted in a couple of movies together… He’s like a second father to me.” pic.twitter.com/6KA6DTEAyp

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In the plot, we find a young Poe (Harry Melling) as a cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, in the USA. When a series of murders takes place at the scene, a more experienced detective (Bale) is called in to investigate them, and soon adopts Poe as his “sidekick”.

The film is directed by Scott Cooper and premieres December 23 in theaters and January 6 on Netflix.