Years ago, it seems, we reported on Edward Norton’s new movie, Leaves of Grass.  Now, ONTD is releasing the first stills from the film, and what do we get?  TWO copies of Yale’s second-hottest graduate (you should know who the first is), duplicated by the same magic that gave us two Nick Cages.  Not only that, but there’s a pseudo-intellectual rationalization for it, courtesy of the director:

There is a whole history of classical comedies with identical twins like The Menaechmi by Plautus, which in turn is based on a Greek play by Menander leading on through Shakespeare who furnishes his own examples in Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors.

In film, the twin metaphor can operate on an entirely new level because you can have a single actor inhabit two characters, and no matter how successful he is in making them different, the audience will always know it’s one actor playing both roles. The notion of twins then becomes this irresistible metaphor for the strikingly different poses one can take in a single life.

That’s all well and good, but these are the reasons I want to see the movie:

• Two Edward Nortons, duh, one preppy and adorable and the other grungy and manly.  Yummers.
• One of the twins is a Philosophy professor at an “Ivy League” university –– which one will get the shoutout?  Or will they skate around naming names, like in Indiana Jones?
• This picture of Ed (as the hotter twin, too!) walking in a forest of marijuana plants.
• Possibility of a cameo by Walt Whitman?