The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus & Heath Ledgers Death

So the news has broken, the actor Heath Ledger has passed on.

But really that’s not what has peaked my interest (not to say that it’s terrible that we have lost another great actor), it’s the fact that he was working on a movie titled The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus which was slated for a 2009 release. Now I’m sure that the film won’t be shut down completely, maybe stalled, or put on hold. But what I’m interested in seeing is where the movie will go from here, because Batman is finished, they’re in post right now so maybe we won’t get some killer ADR that needs to be finished up but what Happens to the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, were they far enough along to leave him in the film, or are they going to have to recast the role? From what I can gather about the movie from the wikipedia page is that it will probably be a heavy CGI film, so whether the practicals have all been shot and we won’t see the final Heath Ledger film until 2009 is a mystery that can only be decided by the people making the film. Hopefully the film won’t be scrapped because of this, I’m not saying this because I’m a huge movie fan, instead because isn’t that the entire point of making movies, to capture an imaginary world that really isn’t there, and what’s more imaginary than the dead coming back to us.