According to Deadline, Emmy winner Gillian Anderson has officially found her next project with Netflix as she signs on to join the cast of Scott Cooper’s forthcoming film adaptation of The Pale Blue Eye, which will feature a young Edgar Allan Poe.
The Pale Blue Eye will be written and directed by Scott Cooper.
Based on the gothic thriller novel by Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye revolves around the attempt to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
The strange and haunted Southern poet for whom Landor develops a fatherly affection, is named Edgar Allan Poe.”