Gillian Anderson, Robert Duvall join Christian Bale's Netflix horror-thriller The Pale Blue Eye

Sex Education and The Crown actor Gillian Anderson has joined the cast of Christian Bale's Netflix horror-thriller The Pale Blue Eye along with Robert Duvall (The Twilight Zone, Godfather) and Timothy Spall (Harry Potter film series). Scott Cooper is the director.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that the film, based on a novel of the same name by Louis Bayard, will focus on a series of murders that took place at a US Military Academy at West Point in 1830. A young cadet played by Harry Milling and Bale, a detective will be the main players in the story.

The film marks Bale and Cooper's latest collaboration after Hostiles and Out of the Furnace.

The cast also includes Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney and Hadley Robinson.

Joey Brooks, Brennan Cook, Gideon Glick, Fred Hechinger, Matt Helm, Steven Maier and Charlie Tahan will also be seen in the film.

Bale is also producing The Pale Blue Eye with Cooper, John Lesher and Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures. Cross Creek had previously backed Aaron Sorkin's The Trial Of The Chicago 7, which was released on Netflix after cinemas were shut down worldwide due to the pandemic.

Dylan Weathered and Tracey Landon are the executive producers.