Last week we announced that Amber Heard would be joining Johnny Depp's long developed adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel The Rum Diary, and that the third space in the love triangle which it explores was yet to be filled. Well good old Two-Faced Aaron Eckhart is in negotiations to play the third man, and also set to join the cast is Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins.
Eckhart is in talks for the role of Sanderson, the materialistic landowner boyfriend of Heard's character who gives Depp's hard-drinking journalist Kemp a taste of the high-life. But the pair eventually engage in a tug of war over the girl, who becomes infatuated with their new friend. Eckhart is up next in Traveling with woman of the moment Jennifer Aniston, but has also been attached to the interestingly titled Battle: Los Angeles.
Jenkins, up this month for an Academy Award for his role in The Visitor, will play Lotterman, Kemp's editor at the ramshackle newspaper where he works. The actor is also set to do a Sarah Michelle Gellar (no, he won't be wearing a mini-skirt and slaying vampires) having hooked up with Joss Wheddon for his new horror Cabin In The Woods.
The Rum Diary, directed by Bruce Robinson begins shooting on March 30 in sunny Puerto Rico.