Netflix released a trailer for The Pale Blue Eye, based on Louis Bayard's 2006 novel "that acts as an origin story of sorts of Edgar Allan Poe," Deadline reported. Adapted and directed by Scott Cooper, the film stars Christian Bale and hits select theaters December 23 before landing on the streamer beginning January 6. Cooper and Bale previously teamed on Out of the Furnace and Hostiles.
The cast also includes Henry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall, Joey Brooks, Brennan Cook, Gideon Glick, Fred Hechinger, Matt Helm, Jack Irving, Steven Maier, Charlie Tahan and Robert Duvall.