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'A Knight's Tale' sequel was scrapped by the Netflix algorithm, according to director Brian Helgeland. The 63-year-old filmmaker has been keen to shoot a follow-up to his 2001 medieval comedy classic - which starred Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk - but despite the original movie's enduring popularity, the streaming platform has decided against it. He told Inverse magazine: "I pitched it to Sony because they own the rights, and it seemed like they were interested in making it with Netflix, releasing it as a Netflix movie. “My understanding is that Netflix tested this sequel idea thro...
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Vivian Oparah wants to play The Joker. The 27-year-old star – who was nominated for the Leading Actress BAFTA for her work on ‘Rye Lane’ – has always been “obsessed” with the late Heath Ledger’s depiction of the DC villain in ‘The Dark Knight’ and thinks she’d enjoy the “challenge” of taking on the iconic role. She told Rolling Stone UK: “I’m obsessed with Heath Ledger’s performance. “But I feel like playing a heightened comic book villain who somehow still feels normal, but has the weirdest physicality, would be a real challenge. “I’m often described as ‘the Trickster’, like, that’s my archet...
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Jake Gyllenhaal appreciated Christoper Nolan and Baz Luhrmann phoning him personally to say why he didn't land roles in their movies. The 'Road House' star was gutted to lose out on the titular role in 2005's 'Batman Begins', which went to Christian Bale, and Christian (Ewan McGregor) in the latter's 2001 jukebox musical 'Moulin Rouge!', which the late Heath Ledger was also considered for. Despite his disappointment, he praised both filmmakers for explaining the reasoning behind their decision to pick another actor. He told 'The Howard Stern Show': “What I felt was disappointment when I didn’t...
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Stephen Gaghan received a haunting phone call from Heath Ledger's father after his number was found written on a script close to the star's lifeless body. The 'Brokeback Mountain' star was found dead at his apartment in New York in 2008 after suffering a drug overdose, and Oscar-winning screenwriter/director Gaghan has now revealed he was caught up in the drama after Ledger's loved ones found his phone number written on a script which was in the bed with the body. During an appearance on the 'Revisionist History: Development Hell' podcast, Gaghan revealed the movie was based on the novel 'Blin...
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Bindi Irwin has urged her mother to let her brother Robert "live his life" after his split from Rorie Buckey. The 20-year-old star - whose father was Crocodile Hunter legend Steve Irwin - recently split from Heath Ledger's niece Rorie after almost two years of dating, and his sister Bindi, 25, has told their mum Terri, 59, to let him find his own way. A source told Woman's Day magazine: "Bindi supported Robert knowing what she's been through years earlier when she was first dating Chandler and will have told her mum to let him live his life and trust that if he needs them he'll reach out, and ...
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Christopher Nolan has compared Cillian Murphy's 'Oppenheimer' transformation to Heath Ledger in 'The Dark Knight'. The 53-ear-old filmmaker - whose film starring Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer has earned 13 nominations for this year's Academy Awards - recalled seeing him in character for the first time, and he couldn't help but think of the late actor's turn as The Joker in his 2008 Batman movie. He told Variety: “It was really in the hair and makeup tests, which we shoot on Imax and in black-and-white. “You start to see the actor bringing an icon to life, putting the hat on, the cigarette in...
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Christopher Nolan insisted he could only accept the Best Director Golden Globe "on behalf" of everyone else who worked on 'Oppenheimer'. The 53-year-old filmmaker took the accolade for the first time and admitted he thought it would be much "simpler" accepting his own prize than the last time he appeared on stage at the ceremony, when he was handed the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role statuette in 2009 as the ceremony posthumously honoured his 'The Dark Knight' star Heath Ledger, but ultimately realised that wasn't the case. Taking to the stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on S...
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Diddy has claimed Warner Bros. sent him a cease and desist because his Heath Ledger-era Joker Halloween costume was too similar to the original. The 'I'll Be Missing You' rapper, 53, was allegedly told off for "breaching the trademark" when he dressed up as "Black Joker" last year and was informed not to wear the ensemble again. In a video on Instagram, Diddy, who was holding the papers, said: “Breaking Halloween news! Breaking Halloween news! “Last year when I did the Black Joker, I got a bunch of emails from the studio telling me not to be the Joker anymore, that I was breaching the trademar...
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Leonardo DiCaprio was being eyed to play Riddler in 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Studio executives were keen for Riddler to be the primary villain in the 2012 superhero movie, however, director Christopher Nolan decided on Bane (Tom Hardy) instead. David S. Goyer - who co-wrote the 'Dark Knight' trilogy with Nolan - has revealed that the Oscar winner was the actor wanted to portray the supervillain. Appearing on the 'Happy Sad Confused' podcast, he spilled: "We had all these pitches…I remember at The Dark Knight [premiere], the head of Warner Bros said, ‘You gotta do the Riddler. Leo [DiCaprio] as...
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Samantha Morton has claimed Harvey Weinstein tried to destroy her career. The 46-year-old actress accused the disgraced producer – who is currently in jail after being found guilty of sex crimes – of threatening to make sure she would “not work again” after she turned down an approach to be in his 2000 romantic comedy ‘About Adam’, which starred Kate Hudson, Stuart Townsend and Frances O’Connor. She recalled on ‘The Louis Theroux Podcast’: "I said, 'I don't like it. I think the film is really misogynistic and I don't want to be part of it.'" The ‘Minority Report’ actress said the casting direc...
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