Harry Melling, who got his start playing the irksome Dudley Dursley in the
Harry Potter movies, has joined Netflix’s
The Pale Blue Eye cast.
Christian Bale (
Scott Cooper (
Crazy Heart), playing a former detective who is hired to solve a series of murders at West Point Academy and is partnered up with a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe (Melling).
Deadline reports that Harry Melling will play famed writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe in
The Pale Blue Eye, which is based on Louis Bayard’s 2007 book. Here is the description of the book:
At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet’s body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man’s heart. Augustus Landor—who acquired some renown in his years as a New York City police detective—is called in to discreetly investigate. It’s a baffling case Landor must pursue in secret, for the scandal could do irreparable damage to the fledgling institution. But he finds help from an unexpected ally—a moody, young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. The strange and haunted Southern poet for whom Landor develops a fatherly affection, is named Edgar Allan Poe.