Scott Cooper’s Netflix film The Pale Blue Eye has added a crowd of wonderful actors to its slate, which had already announced Christian Bale and Harry Melling.

Based on the Louis Bayard 2006 novel of the same name, the Gothic thriller centres on a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe, as he gets wrapped up in a series of murders at the United States Military Academy in West Point, in 1830. Melling with play Poe, while Bale will lead the cast as Augustus Landor, a former police detective who the Academy calls upon to keep the case quiet. Poe and Landor find themselves working in close contact to unravel this mystery, which takes them into a world of secret societies, ritual sacrifice, and  more death.

Joining Bale and Melling on the call sheet are – and here’s where we advise you to take a deep breath – Gillian Anderson (The X Files, Hannibal), Lucy Boynton (Murder on the Orient Express, Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist, Nymphomaniac: Vol I & II), Toby Jones (The Hunger Games, the MCU), Timothy Spall (Electric Dreams, Harry Potter franchise), and Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), as well as Hadley Robinson (Moxie), Joey Brooks (Molly’s Game), Harry Lawtey (Industry), Simon McBurney (Carnival Row), Brennan Keel Cook (Encounter), Gideon Glick (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Fred Hechinger (Fear Street, The Woman in the Window), Matt Helm (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Steven Maier (The Plot Against America), and Charlie Tahan (Ozark).

The Pale Blue Eye marks Cooper’s third collaboration with Bale, following Hostiles and Out of the Furnace. Other than Bale (who also produces the film) and Melling, there has been no information disclosed as to the roles which the newly-added cast members will play.

Scott Cooper most recently directed the horror indie Antlers, and is best known for the Jeff Bridges-starrer Crazy Heart.