Eckhart and Jenkins on the Rocks

I’m getting ready to re-read the novel to figure out how Aaron Eckhart might come across as the third party in the love triangle. Though I’ve liked him in such roles as those a confused predator in Nothing is Private and as the executive who has lost his way in Thank You for Smoking, I think the actor who busted onto the scene with In the Company of Men hasn’t had a non-“caricature” part in ages. According to Variety, he and Richard Jenkins (see you on Oscar night) are climbing on board the 50’s drama. Eckhart would play Sanderson, a wealthy landowner who believes everything has a price and introduces Kemp to a different standard of living. Jenkins is playing Lotterman, the man who oversees the rundown newspaper where Kemp works. The Rum Diary will be filming in Puerto Rico very late next month.