![]() ![]() “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and for Poe, you know, the cemetery is a beautiful place,” Bale says. It’s a cause of death worthy of the dark fiction the real-life Poe would go on to write. Landor’s primary ally in the investigation is a young student at the academy named Edgar Allen Poe ( Harry Melling), who proves most helpful in exploring how, and why, these young men found themselves with their hearts ripped out. ![]() Written and directed by Scott Cooper, this adaptation of Louis Bayard’s novel stars Bale as Augustus Landor, a detective summoned to the military academy at West Point, New York to investigate a mysterious death that spirals into additional instances of murder. Add Edgar Allan Poe to those ranks, thanks to The Pale Blue Eye, as the new Netflix thriller reveals what the famed author might have been like before becoming “that whiskey bent and hell bound godfather of the macabre,” as star Christian Bale (with an assist from Hank Williams) tells Consequence. In recent times, films and TV shows have found rich territory in exploring how iconic figures arrived at their iconic status, from countless superheroes to Whitney Houston to Saul Goodman.
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