Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton, Harry Lawtey, and writer Scott Cooper sat down to discuss their latest project, The Pale Blue Eye, which is currently in theaters and set to come to Netflix. While Cooper said he has been working on this project for over a decade, he wanted to work with Bale, but it never seemed to be the right time. So once everything fell into place (which meant an older Bale), Cooper said he was ready to move forward on the project. Meanwhile, Bale said Cooper was waiting for him to be grumpier and older (to which he jokes he succeeded). Bale talked about Cooper never getting his accent right and the similarities and differences between his character Augustus Landor and Mellings, Edgar Allan Poe. While the two initially seem significantly different when the movie starts, you can begin to see similarities emerge that help you understand how these two worked together. Add in Boynton and Lawtey, and you have yourself one crazy detective story that is filled with twists and turns to the film's last minute.  

Host: Monica Gleberman

Editor: Ashley Pelletier

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Synopsis:

West Point, 1830. A cadet is found dead in the early hours of a gray winter morning. 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). Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, THE PALE BLUE EYE is directed by Scott Cooper and stars an acclaimed supporting cast, including Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall, and Robert Duvall

*The Pale Blue Eye is currently in theaters and will be available to stream on Netflix on January 6, 2023.

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