Heath Ledger's Movie Will Be Salvaged

There was talk that Johnny Depp would take over Heath Ledger’s role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus but now the director, Terry Gilliam, is trying to think of a way to keep Heath in the movie.

 

“Terry’s throwing himself into the job of trying to salvage the picture,” veteran actor Christopher Plummer told PEOPLE over the weekend.

Despite earlier reports that the director might shelve the $30 million production, Gilliam, whom Plummer describes as “terribly saddened” by Ledger’s death is “trying to work out at this moment how to continue on. Fortunately, because the film deals with magic, there is a way, perhaps, of turning Heath into other people and then, using stills and I think they call it CGI…

 More at Backseat Cuddler.

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