Netflix laps a record amount for Batman actor Christian Bale
Netflix has a record amount for Oscar winner and Batman interpreter Christian Bale. The project is called The Pale Blue Eye and puts Bale in the lead.
During the European Film Market, Netflix pays a record amount for a horror film starring Batman star Christian Bale. The online fair brings investors, studios and filmmakers together. Similarly Netflix and the British Oscar winner. The streaming service is getting a gothic horror / thriller called The Pale Blue Eye in return. We know this about the upcoming movie.
Netflix is strict thriller with Christian Bale
Netflix has paid a whopping $ 55 million for the Christian Bale film, which is more than € 46 million. It is the highest amount ever paid during the fair, Deadline reports. The Pale Blue Eye is a passion project from director Scott Cooper that he has reportedly been tinkering with for 10 years. The American director has already worked with Bale twice, for Out of the Furnace and western Hostiles. Cooper previously also made a mafia film Black Mass.
The Pale Blue Eye is based on the book of the same name and is about a series of murders at a military academy in the United States in 1830. Bale plays a talented detective who, together with student Edgar Allan Poe (the later poet who in real life also academy sat) has to solve the murders.
Netflix’s latest movie starring Christian Bale will go into production later this year, when the actor finishes the upcoming Thor movie. Meanwhile, Bale can be seen on the streaming service in Batman Begins, Vice and The Prestige; all three highly recommended!
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