‘Heath Ledger’s Last Movie’: Let’s Start the Doomcasting, Shall We?

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 ‘Heath Ledger’s Last Movie’: Let’s Start the Doomcasting, Shall We?
“Even Heath Ledger Can’t Help Terry Gilliam Find a Distributor.” I’d like to state, for the record, that I object to the headline on this Guardian story pointing to a Hollywood Reporter piece on the uncertain release fate of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — but it did get my attention, unlike the Reporter story itself, which was published late Friday.  ... [link]

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No One Will Touch Legder’s Last Movie, Even Though They Haven’t Seen It?
Published 8/18/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... of this year, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to offer there assistance in completing the role, as filming had not yet wrapped, that was rewritten so that the character would continuously shape shift. I don’t know about you, but it certainly sounds like it would be a tough sell.“In this market, unless I have a reason to think a movie like this is going to be a slam dunk I’m not going to take a flyer on it, even with Heath Ledger,” an anonymous distribution exec who apparently has not seen the film told Hollywood Reporter, and then another anonymous insider ...

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