{"id":1523,"date":"2008-11-17T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:52:34","slug":"aaron-eckhart-to-lead-battle-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/17\/aaron-eckhart-to-lead-battle-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Eckhart To Lead BATTLE: LOS ANGELES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia Pictures has signed <strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong> co-star Aaron Eckhart to star in their big budget science-fiction\/action picture <strong>Battle: Los Angeles<\/strong>. Eckhart will play the leader of a platoon of Marines battling an alien invasion in downtown LA.<\/p>\n<p>Director Jonathan Liebesman describes the film as \u201c<strong>Independence Day<\/strong> meets <strong>Black Hawk Down<\/strong>,\u201d which certainly sounds intriguing. It has been a long time since we\u2019ve seen a hardcore, grunt\u2019s-eye point-of-view, science-fiction war film like <strong>Aliens<\/strong> or <strong>Starship Troopers<\/strong>. However, Liebesman is the director of <strong>Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning<\/strong> and <strong>Darkness Falls<\/strong>, so there is cause to be only cautiously optimistic about this film.<\/p>\n<p>Also, while I like Eckhart as an actor, he does have a mixed track record when it comes to picking projects. For every <strong>Dark Knight<\/strong> or <strong>Thank You For Smoking <\/strong>on his resume, there\u2019s a <strong>The Core<\/strong> or <strong>No Reservations<\/strong>. Plus there\u2019s that whole separated-at-birth thing he has going with Scott Bakula which sort of freaks me out at times.<\/p>\n<p>Via <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Columbia Pictures has signed The Dark Knight co-star Aaron Eckhart to star in their big budget science-fiction\/action picture Battle: Los Angeles. Eckhart will play the leader of a platoon of Marines battling an alien invasion <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/17\/aaron-eckhart-to-lead-battle-los-angeles\/\" title=\"Aaron Eckhart To Lead BATTLE: LOS ANGELES\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1021,7868,1020,21,3,57,1022,893],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-aaron-eckhart","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-battle-los-angeles","10":"tag-casting","11":"tag-coming-soon","12":"tag-directors","13":"tag-jonathan-liebesman","14":"tag-science-fiction"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}