What REALY hurts
Oh Horror!
The humanity! The humanity!…
Let me explain.
With the demise of Heath Ledger many great movies will be delayed or cancelled altogether as they find themselves without an actor. One such movie would have been The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, a new adventure by the creative grey cells of Terry Gilliam.
After the nightmare that was the five days of shooting for The Man who killed Don Quixote, Terry was probably looking forward to a gently tour through imagination with some excellent and reliable actors as tour guides. And then Heath dies and the movie has gone from being in production to project-shutdown.
Poor Terry, his creative vision once again stifled by chance, dumb luck, ill fate. Terry Gilliam may be have some bad choices in this life, but unless one of those choices involved a short-changed fortune teller or a badly placed mirror, he’s done nothing to deserve the bad luck he’s faced.
Yes, it is a tragedy to we’ve lost Heath acting skill; it’s a sad fact that he’s daughter will grow up not knowing her daddy and his family have lost their son. But, the greatest catastrophe to come out of Heath’s death as yet again another Terry Gilliam masterpiece falls into the black pit of unfulfilled dreams.
[...] the sudden death of Heath Ledger many a great movie was put on hold or cancelled, one being the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus directed by my favourite, Terry Gilliam. This was on the back of another Gilliam movie falling [...]
It doesn’t hurt anymore… « Blug… said this on Wednesday 21 October 2009 at 10:27 am |
[...] 16 months ago I lamented, with the sad demise of Heath Ledger that Terry Gilliam’s movie “The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus” may also be heading for an early movie death. I’m very pleased to say that reports of the movies demise were grossly exaggerated. [...]
Postscript: What REALLY hurts « Blug… said this on Monday 18 May 2009 at 3:53 pm |
Depends how much they’ve done I guess. He is the knight in shining armour sort of character (as far as I read the synopsis).
Perhaps they could digitally re-create him
Well maybe they will, but it has got to be a wretched blow to Terry. He was obviously happy to work with Heath again after Brother’s Grim and now he has to go to all the heartache of trying to find that one perfect person. I also don’t know if filming had started…wouldn’t that be grim.
Why can’t he just get another actor. Surely Heath, talented though he was, can’t be the only person on earth who could possibly do the job?