Because of how brilliant he was in The Dark Knight, a lot of people forget that it wasn’t Heath Ledger’s last movie. Ledger was working on the Terry Gilliam movie “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” when he died. As you may recall, instead of scraping the movie, they finished it with Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell all stepping in to play Ledger’s character to finish the project.
The problem has been that no one has picked up the film, and it’s looked like it never hitting the screens was a very real possibility. Until now.
Now, we are happy to report that “Doctor Parnassus” will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22nd. It is expected that an acquisition will be announced soon after.
This is good news. I’ve got to admit I’m more interested in seeing this movie for the way they handle the three actors stepping in to pick up for Ledger than I am to see Ledger himself (although that is obviously also very interesting to me). (source: WorstPreviews)
