Aaron Eckhart Answers The Big Question About The Fate of Harvey Two-Face

So, there’s a big question at the end of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. It was fairly apparent that Aaron Eckhart’s star-making character of Harvey Dent, the crusading district attorney who has his life systematically destroyed by Heath Ledger’s Joker had met his maker after his last stand. Yet there were many who believed that fall didn’t kill him, and that he’d be locked away in Arkham Asylum awaiting a third film. The question of “is Harvey Dent alive” was just posed to Eckhart himself less than an hour ago, at the junket for his new indie film Towelhead, and this was his response.

“No. He is dead as a doornail. He ain’t coming back, baby. I asked Chris that question, and he goes ‘You’re dead.’ Before I even got the question out of my mouth. ‘Hey, Chris, am I - ‘ ‘You’re dead.’ ‘All right, cool.’ No, I’m not coming back. I think, unfortunately, Heath was supposed to go on, you know, and that didn’t work out. I’m nobody, I’m a cog, so I have no say in this sort of stuff, but I’m sure that there are so many other characters that they can whip together. I mean, I heard Angelina Jolie was going to be Catwoman or something. I thought that was a great idea. I’d like to be in that one!”

So there you have it. One mystery solved. We’ve lost Gotham’s white knight. He was the best of us.