Christian Bale solves a mystery with a young Edgar Allan Poe in this trailer for The Pale Blue Eye
, an adaptation of Louis Bayard’s book of the same name, which is coming to Netflix on January 6. Set at the West Point military academy in 1839,stars Christian Bale as a bearded, morose-looking detective who must solve a murder. Lucky for him, he has some help in the form of a young West Point cadet named… EDGAR ALLAN POE.
Like in the poem! Will this be where he gets the idea for it? It does seem likely that there will be a midnight dreary in this movie, and someone will surely end up gently rapping, rapping at his chamber door. Or maybe there will just be ravens flying around because it fits the aesthetic, and the heavy-handed nod in the trailer is just an Easter egg to make sure you know who Poe is. Only this and nothing more.