Christian Bale is all set to star Netflix’s upcoming gothic horror thriller ‘The Pale Blue Eye’, purchased for a record $55million fee at the virtual European Film Market.
The deal is the highest ever for a worldwide movie rights deal at the EFM.
Scott Cooper will write and direct the film. He will be reuniting with Bale in this movie which will be their third film together. The duo had previously worked on Out of the Furnace and Hostiles.
‘The Pale Blue Eye’ is an Edgar Allen Poe-inspired film, which is based on a 2003 novel by Louis Bayard with the same name.
The plot revolves around an investigation into a series of murders that occurred at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1830. Bale would portray the role of a veteran detective who investigates the murders with the help of an aspiring young assistant. The assistant is none other than the world-famous writer, Edgar Allan Poe.
Bale will co-produce the film with Cooper, John Lesher and Cross Creek’s Tyler Thompson. Oscar-winner Bale is currently busy filmingThor: Love and Thunderfor Marvel and David O. Russell’s next film. The “American Psycho” actor will play Gorr the God Butcher— a villain— in Thor: Love and Thunder.
Director Cooper recently have finished up the horror film “Antlers”, produced by Guillermo del Toro for Fox Searchlight, which is set to release in fall.
The streaming giant Netflix has been on a buying spree at this year’s all-virtual European Film Market. This is their third big purchase after acquiring the deal of Colin Firth’s World War II movie: Operation Mincemeat and Liam Neeson-Laurence Fishburne’s action-thriller: The Ice Road.
However, no release date for the film has been set yet as the production will begin in the fall this year.
