Friday, February 15, 2008

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnussus Casting

Aint it Cool News has the details of the actors who will be completing Heath Ledger's role in 'The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus', the Terry Gilliam film Ledger was part way through filming prior to his death last month.

3 Actors will be taking the role - Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell. Apparently the film is split between 'real life' and fantasy worlds. Ledger had finished shooting the former of these and was about to start work on the fantasy sequences. There are three such sequences in the film and a different actor will be playing the Ledger part in each.

This seems a clever way of finishing the film whilst allowig Ledger's work to remain, although there is a danger it may pull the audience out of the film, particularly knowing the surrounding circumstances.

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