Christian Bale and Harry Melling team up in first-look photo from period thriller The Pale Blue Eye
dailymail.co.ukChristian Bale and Harry Melling disappeared behind their period costumes in a new first-look photo released Wednesday from their upcoming historical thriller The Pale Blue Eye.The image, which included a photo of each actor in styled to look as if they were taken back in the early 19th century, shows them in their costumes for the murder mystery.Bale, 48, reunites with director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) to play a retired constable investigating a series of gory murders, while Melling, 33, plays a young Edgar Allan Poe, who joins forces with the detective in 1830.
First look: Christian Bale and Harry Melling were pictured in period-style photographs in a new image released Wednesday from their historical thriller The Pale Blue EyeBale, who has sported a shaggy beard during his recent publicity tour for David O.
Russell's poorly reviewed box office bomb Amsterdam, also wears a beard in the publicity photo, though his current shaggy hair is replaced with a shorter, more jagged cut.He is dressed in a long black double-breasted overcoat as he dusts off a top hat in his hands while gazing into the camera.
Melling has also lately been wearing longish hair, which matched photos of the scraggly Poe, who died in 1849 at only 40 years old.The Queen's Gambit actor was dressed in what appeared to be a uniform, likely a reference to Poe's stint in the United States Army in the late 1820s.
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