The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | film by Gilliam [2009] | Britannica (original) (raw)
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In Terry Gilliam …challenge during the shooting of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009) when Ledger, one of the film’s lead actors, died of an accidental drug overdose halfway through production. Gilliam recruited Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell to appear as alternate versions of the character first portrayed by Ledger, to whom… Read More
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Depp
In Johnny Depp: John Dillinger, the Mad Hatter, and Tonto …of Heath Ledger’s character to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), a conceit engineered to salvage Ledger’s incomplete final performance and made plausible by the fantasy premise of the film. Read More
Farrell
In Colin Farrell: Career Ondine, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart (all three released in 2009), the workplace comedy Horrible Bosses (2011), Miss Julie (2014), The Beguiled (2017), Widows (2018), and After Yang (2021). He worked with Read More
Garfield
In Andrew Garfield: Budding onscreen career and breakthrough in The Social Network …Girl (2008); Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009); and Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan in the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2010). He also continued to take roles on television, starring in the Red Riding (2009) series, for which he received rave reviews.… Read More
Ledger
In Heath Ledger …on the Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus when he died from an accidental overdose of a mixture of prescription drugs. Ledger was posthumously awarded the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his eerie, frantic depiction of the Joker. Filming of The Imaginarium… Read More
Plummer
In Christopher Plummer …role in the Faustian fantasy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. In Beginners (2010) Plummer portrayed a cancer-stricken widower who reveals to his son that he is gay; the performance earned him both an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor in 2012. Read More
Waits
In Tom Waits …as the Devil himself in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). Waits later appeared in The Old Man & the Gun, about a real-life group of bank robbers known as the Over-the-Hill Gang, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (both 2018), the Coen brothers’ ode to the Old West. He… Read More
