Antlers director Scott Cooper‘s serial killer thriller The Pale Blue Eye, which includes legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe among its cast of characters, received a limited theatrical release on December 23rd, and is now set to reach the Netflix streaming service this Friday, January 6th. With its Netflix debut so close, this seemed like a good time to share a batch of character posters that offer a look at the characters that Christian Bale (The Dark Knight), Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit), Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), and the great Robert Duvall (The Godfather) play in the film. You can check those out at the bottom of this article.
Based on a novel by Louis Bayard (pick up a copy HERE), The Pale Blue Eye has the following 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 (Christian 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 (Harry Melling).
The actors featured on the character posters are joined in the cast by Toby Jones (First Cow), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Harry Lawtey (Industry), Simon McBurney (Carnival Row), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Hadley Robinson (Moxie), Joey Brooks (Molly’s Game), Brennan Keel Cook (Encounter), Gideon Glick (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus), Matt Helm (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Steven Maier (The Plot Against America), and Charlie Tahan (Ozark).
Cooper and Bale produced The Pale Blue Eye with John Lesher and Tyler Thompson.
Are you looking forward to watching The Pale Blue Eye? What do you think of the character posters? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I will be watching this movie for sure.