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Heath Ledger - News Accounts
MaineWriter:
Do we need another thread? Just seemed like another news item to me...
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BelAir:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 24, 2008, 03:02:14 pm ---From Comingsoon.net:
Production Shut Down for Ledger's Parnassus?
Source: Us Magazine, Variety
January 23, 2008
According to Us Magazine, crew members on the Vancouver set of Heath Ledger's new fantasy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, were sent home after the actor's death yesterday.
"I just got the call [Tuesday] saying everyone was being let go," the on-set source said. "We were supposed to start this weekend, but obviously they fired everyone today. They don't know yet what they are doing with the footage that was already shot," the source added.
Ledger was on a break from filming Terry Gilliam's $30 million indie film when he died Tuesday. Shooting had begun in London last December. He was last photographed on set Jan. 19.
Variety says that blue-screen work was due to start next week in Vancouver and continue until early March.
The producers have yet to issue any statement about how or whether they plan to proceed without Ledger.
Ledger was the biggest name in an ensemble cast including Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole and Tom Waits. It's the story of an ancient travelling show which arrives in modern London with a magical mirror that can transport its audience into fantastical realms of the imagination.
Plummer plays the impresario Doctor Parnassus, and Ledger took the role of a mysterious outsider who joins the troupe on a quest through parallel worlds to save the doctor's daughter (Cole) from the clutches of the devil (Waits).
The movie is produced by Samuel Hadida, Bill Vince and Amy Gilliam, and largely financed through Hadida's Paris-based Davis Film.
Ledger's involvement in the project was a key factor in raising the finance. He had a strong relationship with Gilliam from their last pic together, The Brothers Grimm.
In November 2000, Gilliam was forced to abandon his $32 million indie project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote after just a week of shooting, when his star Jean Rochefort was too ill to continue.
Ledger's death also came as he was working on what would have been his feature directing debut, an adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel "The Queen's Gambit," with British writer/producer Allan Scott.
The leading role of a young female chess prodigy had been offered to Oscar nominee Ellen Page. Ledger, himself a highly rated chess player, was due to play a supporting role.
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i will be very sad if we don't get to see the movie... or I suppose I really mean, I think Heath would be sad if the movie doesn't get made... (not that I really have any basis for such a supposition)
:-\
Brown Eyes:
An interesting article on the CNN website about how to handle the marketing of the Dark Knight, etc.
Ledger's death puts last films in a bind
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/24/ledger.films/index.html#cnnSTCText
moremojo:
I didn't realize that Heath was preparing to become a film director himself, nor that he was a chess player. Even though I believe that he went when his soul was ready to go, there is such a sense of interruption in his death.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: moremojo on January 24, 2008, 06:11:45 pm ---I didn't realize that Heath was preparing to become a film director himself, nor that he was a chess player. Even though I believe that he went when his soul was ready to go, there is such a sense of interruption in his death.
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I read somewhere that he liked to go to Washington Park, and play chess with the regulars who gathered there.
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