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The Vault of Horror points us to this pic, which allegedly reveals what actor Aaron Eckhart will look like when courageous prosecutor Harvey Dent is disfigured and becomes the super-villain known as Two-Face in THE DARK NIGHT. Brian Solomon acknowledges there is some suspicion that the photo is a fake but takes Warner Bros’ attempt to suppress the image as evidence that it is genuine. I sitll have my doubts. To me, the image looks like a preliminary Photoshop test. It is possible that it could be genuine and still not represent the final look, which would certainly explain why WB would not want it released.

In any case, I’m sure the new BATMAN film will give Eckhart a chance to do a better job with the character than Tommy Lee Jones did in BATMAN FOREVER (in which Two-Face was reduced to playing a clownish second fiddle to Jim Carrey’s camped up Riddler). The trailer for THE DARK KNIGHT makes the film look excellent, possibly better than BATMAN BEGINS, and Heath Ledger seems so spot-on perfect as the Joker it makes you want to cry all over again for his untimely death.

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