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And is Frank Miller directing a “Batman” movie?
New Gotham City resident, Aaron Eckhart, had a blab to MTV about the role he’s just snagged in the forthcoming “The Dark Knight”.
“I am excited. Christopher Nolan is an amazing director,” he said. “It’s another movie that’s a dream come true.”
He’s of course playing Gotham’s youngest-ever D.A, Harvey Dent – the chap who will later become Two-Face.
“Batman is a complex character, and Two-Face comes a little bit from the same world,” Eckhart insisted. “But [at the same time] he’s apart from it.”
Eckhart reported that the key to playing Two-Face, then, is finding specifically how he mirrors — and where he differs — from the Caped Crusader.
“I’m looking for the tension between the two, the similarities between the two,” Eckhart said of his portrayal. “I want to find what’s similar to Batman and then find what’s opposite to him.”
Eckhart suggests he’ll be – as rumours have stated – be playing Dent in this chapter, and then Two-Face in the film to follow.
“Yeah,” Eckhart said, before reconsidering after a brief pause, “Well, I’m Harvey Dent … then I go into Harvey Two-Face.”
“I think I’ll be killed [if I comment on that] — I’m not even sure I can say as much as I have,” Eckhart joked as a wicked, Dent-ian smile broke across his face. “There are snipers looking at me right now!”.
Meantime, in other ‘Bat’ news, rumours are swirling that “Dark Knight Returns” author Frank Miller may be in the mix to direct a future “Batman” movie – and it might even be, “Dark Knight Returns”. Read all about that here.
