Heath Ledger's Final Movie To Continue Without Him

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Director Terry Gilliam is feverishly working to figure out how to keep Heath Ledger alive on film, according to one of the late actor's costars in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which Ledger was still shooting when he died last week.

"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...

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[napoleon68]

10:05 AM on 01/29/2008

well, ridley scott did it for oliver reed in gladiator. man out drank 5 british sailors and left a bar tab of 550 dollars! ouch! the last scenes of proximo were cgi. it can be done.

you are right. terry gilliam deservs a break for making movies. poor guy. monty python rules!

[3fingerbrown]

06:44 AM on 01/29/2008

Gilliam has to be the most ill-starred filmmaker in the world. It seems like every movie he works on, something goes terribly wrong. I remember seeing a documentary about the series of disasters that derailed his "Don Quixote." If ever a director deserved an easy day on the set, it's Gilliam.

[43P04T34]

01:29 AM on 01/29/2008

I'm for this.

[diahann]

09:36 PM on 01/28/2008

They can do it! They did it when James Dean died before the end of Giant