Aaron Eckhart broke out 14 years ago with a memorably slimy role in
Neil LaBute's sinisterly fun classic
In The Company of Men, and although their follow-up collaborations Your Friends & Neighbors and Possession never did recapture that early magic, it's still exciting to hear that the former Brigham Young University pals are getting ready to team up together again. The Indie movie in question is
The Hope of Geography and
24 Frames say Labute & Eckhart will reunite with
Ed Harris also attached to star. Based on a dusty old screenplay LaBute has dusted off from his bottom drawer, The Hope of Geography is a 70's period piece following two thieves who scarper to Mexico after a robbery in a San Diego convenience store goes tits up and their subsequent encounters with American woman who they can't help but act like
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels too. The idea is to shoot in Puerto Rico this year from Sundial Pictures and the sales company Preferred Content and after LaBute's eye-gougingly awful tripple headers
The Wicker Man remake,
Lakeview Terrace and
Death at a Funeral - let's hope a re-teaming with an old friend can produce something more pleasing.