Christian Bale Stars in New Clip From Edgar Allan Poe Period Thriller THE PALE BLUE EYE
A new clip has been released from the period thriller The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale. The story centers on a young cadet the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe and a series of murders that took place at the United States Military Academy, West Point, in 1830. Bale portrays retired detective Augustus Landor, tasked with investigating those murders.
The movie was directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers), and it’s based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 Gothic thriller novel of the same name. Harry Melling (Harry Potter, The Queen’s Gambit) stars alongside Bale as Edgar Allan Poe.
Here’s the full synopsis:
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.
In the clip below, we see Bale investigating, just before he comes face to face with the young Poe. Check out the clip below, and watch The Pale Blue Eye in select theaters now, and streaming on Netflix on January 6, 2023.