Netflix releases teaser trailer for filmed-in-Pittsburgh ‘Pale Blue Eye’
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Netflix released a teaser trailer for “The Pale Blue Eye,” a film that marked a return to filming in Western Pennsylvania for star Christian Bale and director Scott Cooper, who previously filmed the 2013 “Out of the Furnace” locally. Bale also starred in the 2012 hit “Dark Knight Rises,” which filmed partially in Pittsburgh.
“The Pale Blue Eye” is set in 1830 in West Point, N.Y., where a world-weary veteran detective (Bale) is called on to solve a murder. He enlists the assistance of a cadet (Harry Melling, “The Queen’s Gambit”) who happens to be a young Edgar Allan Poe.
The streaming film also stars Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”), Robert Duvall (“Jack Reacher”), Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Melancholia”) and Fred Hechinger (“The White Lotus”).
In December 2021 Cooper told the Tribune-Review Western Pennsylvania “works exceedingly well for the 1830s Hudson Valley” during filming in Laughlintown, Ligonier Township, at the Compass Inn Museum’s blacksmith shop.
Other filming locations included Westminster College, which stood in for West Point military academy, Moraine State Park, McConnells Mill and Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville.
Per a Netflix publicist, it’s unclear if “The Pale Blue Eye” will have a theatrical release in Pittsburgh when it opens in select theaters nationally on Dec. 23. The film will stream on Netflix Jan. 6. The movie is adapted from the 2006 Louis Bayard novel of the same name.