Christian Bale In “The Pale Blue Eye”

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) – Netflix has premiered the teaser trailer for “Antlers” and “Out of the Furnace” director Scott Cooper’s new period thriller “The Pale Blue Eye” starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling.

The feature is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 Gothic thriller novel and unfolds at West Point military academy in 1830. A world-weary detective (Bale) is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet.

Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case – a young man (Melling) the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall, Fred Hechinger, Hadley Robinson, Joey Brooks, Brennan Keel Cook, Gideon Glick, Matt Helm, Steven Maier, Charlie Tahan and Robert Duvall co-star.

“The Pale Blue Eye” will be available to stream on Netflix from January 6th.