While the fact is that the only Aaron Eckhart news anyone really wants to hear is that he’ll be returning as Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight Rises, he’s said he hasn’t recieved the call from Chris Nolan (and doesn’t know if he’d want to), and so is busy finding other movies to be in.
Deadline reports that he’s going to star in The Expatriate, which has been announced at the American Film Market. In the movie, Eckhart will a former CIA agent who hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He takes a job in Belgium as a security expert for a multinational corporation and arrives one day to find the corporation no longer exists, his coworkers are gone, and his assistant is really a trained operative out to kill him and his daughter. Father and daughter go on the run and must learn to trust each other, something that becomes difficult once she learns the truth about his shadowy past.
Although it sounds like The Expatriate could be an okay, if pretty generic, action film, the fact it’s going into production early next year would suggest he definitely won’t be back for Batman 3. To be honest, considering the end of The Dark Knight, it’s probably best he doesn’t return, but there’s little doubt a lot of people would like to see it.