Most recently we've seen Aaron Eckhart in black comedy (Thank You For Smoking) or film noir (The Black Dahlia), but now he's going for something a little softer, with the news that he’s signed up for a new drama called Traveling.
The cleft-chinned one will play a widower whose book about grieving turns him into an overnight sensation, leading him to reinvent himself as a self-help guru. But when he falls for a woman attending one of his seminars, he’s forced to deal with the fact that he hasn’t really come to grips with his own loss after all.
The film is set to be directed by newcomer Brandon Camp, who also wrote the script with writing partner Mike Thompson. The pair previously wrote Kevin Costner grief-drama / supernatural tale Dragonfly, so at least they’re on familiar ground here.
Meanwhile Eckhart will be cooking up some romance with Catherine Zeta Jones in No Reservations (expect to see that trailer attached to Ocean’s Thirteen, and either run screaming from the cinema or book your ticket, depending on your tolerance for opera and CZJ) and taking on the dual role of Harvey Dent and Two-Face (we hope) between Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.