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Scott Cooper Talks Building A Whodunit With Father Of The Murder Mystery Edgar Allan Poe In ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ – Contenders LA3C

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Crazy Heart writer-director Scott Cooper joined Deadline’s Contenders: LA3C awards-season event to discuss The Pale Blue Eye, his adaptation of the Louis Bayard novel about a gruesome West Point murder committed while none other than Edgar Allan Poe was a cadet in the military academy.

Cooper teams with Christian Bale for the third time, with Bale playing a world-weary detective summoned when a cadet is found hanged from a tree on the grounds of the academy.

It goes from suicide to something else when a telltale heart clue emerges: someone has removed the cadet’s ticker, after he was cut down.

The detective meets a particularly sharp cadet named Poe (Harry Melling), and from there, it’s a whodunit with the creator of that genre at the center. RELATED: Deadline’s The Contenders LA3C: Full Coverage “Nobody is who they appear to be in this film, and nobody knew that better than Edgar Allan Poe,” Cooper said during the Netflix film’s panel. “After my first time Crazy Heart, my father sent me the novel.

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