Who stars in The Pale Blue Eye?

Woman-of-the-moment Gillian Anderson will be starring in this thrilling murder mystery, playing an as-yet-unnamed role. However, we’re sure that the Sex Education and The Crown actor will likely bring a powerful performance to this literary horror.

Christian Bale will be playing the world-weary detective Augustus Landor, marking the third collaboration for Bale and director Scott Cooper, who previously worked together on the thriller Out Of The Furnace and the western Hostiles.

Harry Melling, of The Queen’s Gambit and Harry Potter fame, is our young Edgar Allan Poe in the upcoming film. Easily one of the most iconic writers of our time, Poe won’t be penning poems and missives in this twisted tale. Rather, he’ll be joining Bale’s Landor to solve a grizzly murder as part of a wider and entirely eerie mystery.

Robert Duvall and Timothy Spall join an ensemble cast that includes Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney and Hadley Robinson.

Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye: watch the gritty trailer for Gillian Anderson and Christian Bale’s new gothic horror film