Heath Ledger Dead at 28

[grady]

Originally Posted by cured

per a buddy of mine:

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He'd wrapped on DARK KNIGHT. He was shooting THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSIS, the new Terry Gilliam film in London. (Man, again, not to be too insensitive, but Gilliam can't catch a break, can he? Just see the documentary LOST IN LA MANCHA to understand what I mean. It's about Terry trying to film a Don Quixote film which had the worst production problems ever and the film was shut down.)

I had almost the exact same thought and wrote the following to a co-worker in another dept. upon learning of Ledger's death.

This is a strange day indeed and sad.

A casualty of this and it's terrible to think of this in these terms is Terry Gilliam. Ledger is one of the leads in his new film currently shooting and Ledger's passing is yet another in the continuing debacle of Gilliam attempting to make films and then being inundated with sometimes insurmountable situations. This seems like a continuation of what we witnessed in Lost in La Mancha.