It seems that no one wants to get rid of this overused reference to “Alice in Wonderland”, but here it is again: Diane Wiest and Tammy Blanchard have joined the cast of Rabbit Hole for Blossom Films, Olympus Pictures and Odd Lot Entertainment.
The film is an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Broadway play. It follows the struggle of a couple – played by Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart – as they cope with the unexpected death of their 4-year old son.
John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus) is directing.
It looks like Aaron Eckhart will star with Nicole Kidman in the adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Broadway 
Pulitzer Prize winning play “Rabbit Hole.”
John Cameron Mitchell is set to direct with Kidman producing through her Fox-based Blossom Films banner.
Lindsay-Abaire’s adapting his story of a blissfully married couple whose lives are disrupted after their 4-year-old son is killed in a traffic accident and the deliverance they must undertake to regain happiness.
The trades are reporting that Aaron Eckhart is in negotiations to join Johnny Depp in the forthcoming drama Rum Diary; Richard Jenkins has already signed on to the cast.
Being adapted from Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, the story follows a washed-up journalist named Paul Kemp in 1950s Puerto Rico.
Eckhart is set to play Sanderson, a wealthy landowner who believes everything has a price. He introduces Kemp to a different standard of living, but the pair are soon caught up in a love triangle with a beautiful young woman played by Amber Heard.
It has been adapted by Bruce Robinson, who is also directing. Filming begins next month on location in Puerto Rico.
Aaron Eckhart decided to take the starring role in Battle: Los Angeles, a sci-fi action film that Jonathan 
Liebesman is directing for Columbia.
Although this is Eckhart’s first time to be front and center on an action movie, he did play Harvey Dent/Two-Face in The Dark Knight and held his own in Black Dahlia and Erin Brockovich. Battle: Los Angeles is being touted as Eckhart’s vehicle to go mainstream.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Bertolini wrote the story that centers on a Marine platoon’s encounter in the battle on the streets of Los Angeles against an alien invasion. Eckhart will play the platoon leader in the film, which has yet to set a start date.
While Heath Ledger’s posthumous performance as the Joker may have netted almost all of the praise, Aaron Eckhart’s characterization of Harvey ‘Two-Face’ Dent was pretty good too.
Keeping that in mind, the actor was questioned whether his character would be back in the third film.
“He’s dead,” he bluntly put it. “I asked Chris if there was a chance of coming back. ‘No way,’ he said. ‘He’s toast.’”
As for him being signed up for another film, Eckhart once again bluntly stated that “I’m not coming back” and that he is a “nobody… I’m a cog… I have no say over this sort of stuff.”
The second Batman Begins sequel is in talks and is expected sometime in 2010.
 
Ain’t it Cool News posted the above pic of Harvey Dent, the second villain to feature in the upcoming Batman sequel, The Dark Knight. Directed by Christopher Nolan, who revamped the franchise with Batman Begins, I knew the film was going to be dark. But this goes beyond dark, it’s downright scary!
Now, I don’t know whether this is real or not. Last year Slashfilm posted some pics of Two-Face which they revealed were fake. And there’s also rumours that Two-Face, played by Aaron Eckhart, will only briefly appear in The Dark Knight, instead being set up for the next inevitable sequel. I really hope this pic isn’t fake, it would really add to the intensity of a film that is already disturbing (check out the trailer)- and that’s even before you realise that the Joker is essentially Heath Ledger’s last role.
The Dark Knight is released from July 18th.