Terry Gilliam

Heath Ledger's final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the one director Terry Gilliam wants him to win another Oscar for his role in, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last night.

Ledger passed away while working on the project and Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to finish his part.

This past awards season's biggest story was whether or not Heath Ledger would win a posthumous Oscar for his role in The Dark Knight.

Well, if director Terry Gilliam has his way, that will be the story next year as well, except it will be for his film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Despite the fact that there initially was concern that he film would never make theaters, the movie has been given a prime fall release date.

Quentin Tarantino is returning to Cannes, the film festival where his second movie, a film that changed cinema forever, Pulp Fiction, won the prestigious Palme d’Or in 1994.

Quentin’s new movie, Inglourious Basterds, about a group of Jewish-American soldiers on a covert mission to brutally terrorize Nazis during the French occupation, will be competing against Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Looking for Eric, which was directed by Ken Loach, who won the Palme d’Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shook the Barley, and 17 other films.

Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight may be the last opportunity for the actor's fans to see him on the big screen after all.

When Ledger died last year he was about a third of the way through filming Monty Python star Terry Gilliam's latest project, The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus. Gilliam changed the script around so that Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp could finish the film in Ledger's role.

After Heath Ledger’s sudden, tragic death, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell were hired to complete his final film role in The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus directed by Terry Gilliam. The trio plays versions of Heath’s character as he travels through different dimensions.

In one of the most touchingly, un-Hollywood moves we’ve seen in a long time, Depp, Law and Farrell are donating their salaries from the film to Ledger and Michelle Williams’ two-year-old daughter Matilda because Ledger left an old will that didn’t include his little girl.