Harry Melling to co-star with Christian Bale in ‘The Pale Blue Eye’

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor Harry Melling will characteristic alongside Hollywood star Christian Bale in filmmaker Scott Cooper’s upcoming directorial “The Pale Blue Eye”.

Melling is finest identified for starring in films like “The Old Guard” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” in addition to smash hit Netflix collection “The Queen’s Gambit”.

The 32-year-old English actor will essay the youthful model of nineteenth century novelist Edgar Allan Poe within the interval homicide thriller film, reported Deadline.

“The Pale Blue Eye” is predicated on creator Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel of the identical title.

Thriller revolves across the try to unravel a collection of murders that occurred in 1830 on the US Military Academy at West Point.

Bale will painting a veteran detective who investigates the murders, helped by a detail-oriented younger cadet (Melling) who will later turn out to be a world well-known creator Edgar Allan Poe.

The film marks a reunion between Bale and Cooper who beforehand labored on critically-acclaimed films “Out of the Furnace” and “Hostiles”.

The duo may also produce the film alongside John Lesher and Cross Creek’s Tyler Thompson.

Production is predicted to begin later this 12 months.

Melling will subsequent characteristic alongside Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth”.

He may also star in indie film “Please Baby Please”, reverse Andrea Riseborough, Demi Moore, and Karl Glusman.

The movie not too long ago wrapped manufacturing.