Here are the stats and particulars for Dirt Music which has now been upgraded on IMDb Pro to In Development. It's scheduled to film in 2008.
Status: Script
Production Co: Rumbalara Films
Genre: Drama /
Summary: Based on the novel by Tim Winton, the film focuses on the lives of an alcoholic mother and a gloomy poacher living in a remote fishing village in Western Australia.
Filmmakers: Phillip Noyce - Director / Producer, Pip Karmel - Writer (screenplay), Justin Monjo - Writer (screenplay), Tim Winton - Writer (novel), Miranda Culley - Producer more ยป
Cast
Heath Ledger
Rachel Weisz
Directed by
Phillip Noyce (attached)
Writers
Pip Karmel Screenplay
Justin Monjo Screenplay
Tim Winton Novel
Producers
Miranda Culley ... producer
Phillip Noyce ... producer
Miscellaneous Crew
John Collee ... script editor
Production Companies
Rumbalara Films Australia Pty. Ltd.
I have the book, but haven't gotten to read it all the way through. Dirt Music is slang for the folk type music in Aus. kind of blues/folk sit on the front porch and pick it by yourself type stuff. either handed down or make it up as you go.
And Batman Dark Knight I believe is scheduled for 2007.