Bale and director Scott Cooper unpack the new footage of the gothic thriller.
FilmmakerScott Cooperconsiders atmosphere on par with character.
The small-town southwest of America inCrazy Heart.
Christian Bale’s Det. Landor is on the case in ‘The Pale Blue Eye.'.SCOTT GARFIELD/NETFLIX
The Pennsylvania steel mills inOut of the Furnace.
Whitey Bulgar’s South Boston hood inBlack Mass.
The rural Americana backdrop inHostiles.
Lucy Boynton’s Lea Marquis sits at the piano in a scene from ‘The Pale Blue Eye.'.SCOTT GARFIELD/NETFLIX
He took the same approach forThe Pale Blue Eye.
“It was ball-freezingly cold,” Bale confirms of the production.
It looks good, it feels right.
These are situations these tough characters have been accustomed to."
“I thought, ‘How can I takeThe Pale Blue Eyeand do three things?'”
People have a strong relationship with Poe’s much later work, his incredibly dark work.
“I’m a sloth.
He’s a cheetah,” Bale says of Cooper.
“He writes so quickly, and he wants to work all the time.
What was that vibe?
The mystery-thriller also marks a rare project that counts Bale as a producer.
The Oscar winner says that’s a testament to his friendship with Cooper.
That line was not in the original novel, but it is the crux of Cooper’sThe Pale Blue Eye.
The Pale Blue Eyeopens in select theaters starting Dec. 23 and drops on Netflix Jan. 6.
