Given the lead actor concerned and the well-known determine featured within the story, casting will show to be much more essential than standard with “The Pale Blue Eye.” Christian Bale is connected as lead protagonist Augustus Landor, the detective in command of unraveling this disturbing homicide thriller. The aforementioned “younger cadet” who’s none aside from Edgar Allan Poe himself might be portrayed by distinctive character actor Harry Melling, a veteran of the “Harry Potter” franchise, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” and the favored Netflix sequence “The Queen’s Gambit.” We beforehand reported {that a} bevy of different actors had additionally joined the solid. These names embody Gillian Anderson, Robert Duvall, Timothy Spall, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, and Harry Lawtey.
As talked about, the movie might be written and directed by Scott Cooper. The esteemed Howard Shore is reportedly on board to compose the rating, with cinematography duties falling to Masanobu Takayanagi, who’s identified for his work on “Warrior,” “The Gray,” “Highlight,” and Cooper’s earlier movie, “Hostiles.” Keep tuned for extra particulars as they arrive in.