Robert Duvall has a supporting role in the period thriller set to open Dec. 23.
It’s 1830, and a cadet has been found dead in a secluded area near West Point. Worse, when the body is transported to the morgue, it’s discovered that the victim’s heart has been removed with surgical skill. Fearing the savage crime will harm the reputation of the fledging military academy, officials bring in local detective Augustus Landor to solve the murder. Trouble is, Landor finds himself repeatedly stymied by the cadets’ code of silence. He finds only one West Pointer willing to aid him in his investigation, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry.
The young man’s name? Edgar Allan Poe.
That’s the intriguing plot of The Pale Blue Eye, a period thriller set to open in select theaters Dec. 23 before its Jan. 6, 2023 premiere on Netflix. What really has us hyped: The film reunites Christian Bale, who plays Augustus Landor, with Hostiles director Scott Cooper, the same filmmaker who gave us Crazy Heart and Antlers. Cooper also wrote the script, based on the novel by Louis Bayard.
Harry Melling of The Queen’s Gambit and the Harry Potter movie franchise plays Edgar Allan Poe. And no less a living legend than C&I reader favorite than Robert Duvall is credited in an impressive supporting cast that also includes Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, and Timothy Spall.
Here is the first teaser trailer for The Pale Blue Eye.
Photography: Netflix/Scott Garfield
