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 cou
The Pale Blue Eye.
The story follows a detective piecing together several murders that went down in 1830 at the US Military Academy of West Point.
Oscar-winner Bale leads the cast as Augustus Landor, the veteran investigator who s helped in the case by a cadet and talented poet – a young Edgar Allen Poe.
The new
Paranormal Activity movie currently has a planned release date of March 4, 2022, and will debut on streaming service Paramount+.
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According to
The
Pale Blue Eye has been nabbed by the streaming service for a whopping $55 million – the most ever paid for a worldwide deal at the European Film Market.
The movie, which is based on Louis Bayard s 2003 novel of the same name, will see Oscar-winning Bale reunite with Scott Cooper who is adapting the script and directing. aul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images The pair have worked together previously on 2013 s
Hostiles.
The
Pale Blue Eye follows a detective who is looking to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the US Military Academy of West Point.
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