Heath Ledger Dead!?

[benrosa]

I still maintain that Renfro is the greatest loss of the bunch. The youngest and probably the most talented, but he hit the skids a number of years ago now. Ledger I never liked - I've never seen such a critically acclaimed one-note actor in all my life - but it doesn't prevent this from being a terrible tragedy. Young Hollywood SERIOUSLY needs a wake-up call these days. Get your stuff together, guys, geez.

Renfro was so versatile and so intense. His role in Bully was so amazing.

[50%grey]

Ledger was awesome in Lords of Dogtown..he channeled Skip Engblom perfectly.

[Akira X]

The latest on this is that playing the Joker was so straining on him that he'd been striken with insomnia ever since, and in a state of sleep deprivation, accidentally overdosed on Ambien.

At least that what I hurrrd. So back up, yo's, he didn't orphan his kids on purpose.

[lost-spartan]

Hey folks, Harry here....There's a lot of rumors swirling around right now in regards to Heath and where his involvement with THE DARK KNIGHT was. I got it confirmed from a source involved in Post-Production on THE DARK KNIGHT. Heath's post work was complete. He had indeed finished it, as to not interfere with the production of the film he was doing with Gilliam. We're now working to find out what's going to happen there. The last known photo of Heath was as a clown in that film. Will Terry re-cast? What will happen? We'll try to find out for all of you. But there will be no-dubbing on Heath in THE DARK KNIGHT - his performance was finished.

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[Singles]

I know Heath Ledger is dead and all, but I can't help but think about how Terry Gilliam can NOT catch a break.

[benrosa]

I know Heath Ledger is dead and all, but I can't help but think about how Terry Gilliam can NOT catch a break.

Not getting it

[Wingfan]

Not getting it

From the Wiki...

Production problems

Gilliam has made a few extremely expensive movies beset with production problems. After the lengthy quarreling with Universal Studios over Brazil, Gilliam's next picture, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, cost around US$46 million[4], and then earned only about US$8 million in US ticket sales.

In the mid-1990s, Gilliam and Charles McKeown developed a script for Time Bandits 2; the project never came to be, as several of the original actors had died. He also attempted to direct a version of Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, which collapsed due to disagreements over its budget and choice of lead actor.

In 1999, Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, budgeted at US$32.1 million, among the highest-budgeted films to use only European financing; but in the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote (Jean Rochefort) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set. The film was canceled, resulting in an insurance claim worth US$15 million. (Gilliam's reputation in this regard has been sufficient for the satirical newspaper The Onion to run a news article entitled "Terry Gilliam Barbecue Plagued By Production Delays".) Although the film was canceled, the story behind the whole production was filmed by a second crew hired by Gilliam to document the process. (This was as sort of an insurance for Gilliam, learned from previously canceled productions.) This production story was made into the documentary Lost in La Mancha.

He has attempted twice to adapt Alan Moore's Watchmen comics into a film. Both attempts (in 1996 and 2000, respectively) were unsuccessful. Most recently, unforeseeable problems again befell a Gilliam project when actor Heath Ledger died in New York City during the filming of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Gilliam has also helmed some unqualified successes, however. The Fisher King (1991) was nominated for five Academy Awards, Twelve Monkeys grossed over US$168 million worldwide, and The Brothers Grimm has grossed over US$105 million worldwide.

[benrosa]

From the Wiki...

dang! wow!

[ThatGracefulledge]

He told The New York Times in a November interview that he "stressed out a little too much" during the Dylan film, and had trouble sleeping while portraying the Joker, whom he called a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy".


http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.a...oryName=453544


he might of ODed on sleeping pills I have Insomnia myself but don't take ambien but depend on seroquel. Not recommend....

[fatmancomics]

... - I've never seen such a critically acclaimed one-note actor in all my life...

Leonardo De Caprio? Brad Pitt? George Clooney? Need I go on? I was actually sad when I heard. Say what you will about him being a one trick pony or whatever. From what I've seen on the DK previews, he was just about to show us that he could be versatile as well.