Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ Adaptation, ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Gets New Poster

Edgar Allan Poe’s classic, The Tell-Tale Heart is getting an adaptation over at Netflix by Scott Cooper. The Pale Blue Eye will put Christian Bale at its forefront and get nice and gothic to tell the story of a captivating whodunnit.

The synopsis for The Pale Blue Eye goes like this:

West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry—a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).

The film stars Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall, Joey Brooks, Brennan Cook, Gideon Glick, Fred Hechinger, Matt Helm, Jack Irving, Steven Maier, Charlie Tahan and Robert Duvall.

The Pale Blue Eye arrives on Netflix beginning January 6.