In the aftermath of Heath Ledger’s death, we wondered whether the Terry Gilliam Curse had struck again. Ledger had completed only a few weeks of shooting on Gilliam’s latest phantasmagoric epic, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and it looked like the project was headed towards the same dead end as the director’s ill-fated The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
Perhaps inspired by the multiple Dylans of I’m Not There – one of which was played by Ledger – Gilliam has hit on an ingenious solution to his dilemma.
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