Sunday, March 16, 2008

Three plus one equals four

Variety says that Terry Gilliam has gone back to filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which he had stopped because of the untimely and extremely sad death of Heath Ledger. Heath's "realistic" part of the film was completed, and now filming has started again, with three actors finishing his part. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law are the actors. (I worked with Colin Farrell on a film called The Farm, which was renamed to something else, where we ended up on a train alone together while he sang show tunes. Luck be a Lady Tonight is the one that comes to mind.)

From a statement from the producers:

"Since the format of the story allows for the preservation of his entire performance, at no point will Heath's work be modified or altered through the use of digital technology. Each of the parts played by Johnny, Colin and Jude is representative of the many aspects of the character that Heath was playing."
That's good news all around, or as good as can come out of a tragedy.

When Cam and I went to see Juno there was a poster for the new Batman movie in the hallway and every single person that passed by stopped and looked at the image of Heath with the giant grin of the Joker and said something in memoriam. It was touching but I wish we could have skipped the whole thing.

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