Aaron Eckhart Talks About Reading The Script For THE DARK KNIGHT For The First Time

Aaron Eckhart, who played Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, is such a big fan of that film and loves the fact that fans still talk about how great it is.

During a recent interview with CB, Eckhard opened up about the film and talked about what it was like for him to read the script for the first time.

Eckhart said: "That movie's extraordinary, that movie's special, and it wasn't just special on the screen. It was special in the script. It was special in the writing.”

He recalls: “I'll tell you a story about that. I was at home and a guy came to my house with the script. He handed me the script, and he waited outside for two hours while I read that script, and then I handed it back to him and he left.”

The actor continued: “And I remember reading that script going, oh, I felt like I just read a novel, a good novel. And I thought, how in the world can you incorporate this many main characters into a plot, into a movie, into a script, and make it work? But there it is, and Chris put everything that was in that script up on the screen.”

He went on to talk about Nolan’s work on the film, saying: “And if you look at Gotham City and what's going on in Gotham City now, before that, Chris made that movie real. And of course you had Heath who just went off the charts.”

He added: “But look what happened. It's a big city that has feckless and cowardly politicians, corrupt politicians who have given that city over to a mafia. And now the people who cannot walk the streets at night cannot.

“They have to entrust themselves into somebody to come save them. And if you think about it, how pertinent and how relevant that storyline is, it's oppression. And so I think the movie lives beyond entertainment and cinema."

I recently re-watched The Dark Knight and was once again floored by how freakin’ incredible that movie is!