Heath Ledger was told to seek professional help for his personal problems while filming The Dark Knight, according to reports.
The late Australian actor - who tragically died from an accidental prescription drugs overdose in January - was reportedly warned he had become too obsessed with his portrayal of iconic Batman villain The Joker in the upcoming blockbuster.
A source told FOX News: “Heath refused to talk to anyone out of character.
If you tried to communicate with him normally instead of The Joker, he would just ignore you.
“He would often come to the set to hang out even on his days off, freaking everyone out. Towards the end of filming, he was warned by people that he had gone too far, but it was almost like he couldn’t connect with those who cared for him anymore.”
Ledger reportedly locked himself in an apartment for an entire month before playing The Joker, who he described as a “psychotic, mass-murdering clown”.
Ledger also admitted he had such trouble sleeping while shooting the film he resorted to taking the prescription drug Ambien.
Sources on the set of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’- the movie Ledger was filming when he died - also claimed the actor could not “snap out” of character and seemed to have “lost sense” of who he was.
It’s always a tragedy when anyone gets paid a visit by Death. I was saddened by the (sketchy) news today that Australian actor Heath Ledger had been found dead in his hotel room. He had generated quite a bit of interest on this blog as we had been documenting his forthcoming appearance in the new Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight’.
Currently, this site is taking an absolute hammering as Googling Ledger is bringing a lot of traffic right here. (We won’t even begin to mention the countless of blogs who steal our bandwidth by serving their Heath Ledger/Joker images right from here. Fuckers!) so you may notice some slow-down today.
But I digress… a talented young man has lost his hold on life, and that really is sad and has put a morose dampener on this day.
The Joker… is dead.
Fans of the upcoming Batman film were able to follow the clues of the viral marketing campaign at whysoserious.com and unlock the brand new poster for The Dark Knight.
And whilst we’re on the subject of the caped crusader (close your eyes as spoilers abound below!)
Gotham City will go through a ‘white night’ (no explanation of what that is)
For the first time in the cinemas, Batman is going out of Gotham City (we all know where - Hong Kong)
Two Face will be in the film
There will be a 6 or 7 min prologue about the Joker that will be show before “I Am Legend” in IMAX cinemas only
Continue reading ‘The Dark Knight Poster’
There’s been quite a heated discussion happening over on this post when we revealed some more shots of Heath Ledger as the Joker in the forthcoming ‘The Dark Knight’ movie. I for one think he looks friggn awesome and have high expectations for this movie. In short… can’t wait folks!
Continue reading ‘Empire Magazine Reveals More of The Joker’
Crew member on new Batman film killed in crash. A special effects technician has been killed in a crash during production of the latest Batman film, Warner Bros. said Tuesday.
You wanted ‘em, you got ‘em! Here’s a slew of pics from the forthcoming Batman flick ‘The Dark Knight’ - featuring Heath Ledger as the Joker!
Check ‘em out folks, right after the jump:
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The new image of Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight has now been removed from IBelieveinHarveyDentToo.com. It’s been replaced with red text that gives the error, ‘Page not found’. If you highlight the entire page, however, you’ll see a ton of ‘Ha Ha Ha’s’ with some letters here and there that don’t belong. String those letters together and what do you get? - ‘See you in December’.
So who is behind all this? It looks to be 42 Entertainment, the company which previously created the ‘I Love Bees’ promotion for ‘Halo 2′ and ‘Year Zero’ for the Nine Inch Nails album ‘Year Zero’. The company just registered SeeYouinDecember.com yesterday, so stay tuned.
