Christian Bale enjoys working as "the right-hand-man" for director Scott Cooper, which is why he's joining forces with the filmmaker again on Gothic mystery The Pale Blue Eye.

In the Netflix thriller, Bale plays veteran detective Augustus Landor who is summoned to a military academy in 1830 to investigate a murder, where he meets a young Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).

The film marks Bale's third collaboration with Cooper, after previously starring for him in 2013 crime drama Out of the Furnace and 2017 western Hostiles.

The Pale Blue Eye is available to stream on Netflix UK from 6 January.