When talking about improving a movie that needed no improving, Tom Waits would still have made The Dark Knight a better ride. Just think of the casting possibilities. Waits did, however, linkup  with Heath Ledger for the latter’s final film titled The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Joining them on the big screen will be Colin Farrell, Jude Law, and of course, since no bizarre film would be complete without him, Johnny Depp. The three hunks jumped in in 2008 when Ledger’s death put a crimp in the film’s production. What’s more, Farrell, Law, and Depp all agreed to donate their earnings from the film to Ledger’s daughter Matilda who never got written into Ledger’s will.  Check the trailer above. (Via SPIN).

Modest Mouse have released the music video for their single “King Rat,” which Heath Ledger was in the middle of directing around the time of his death. Ledger had conceptualized the animated video with The Masses in order to raise awareness about illegal whaling off the coast of Australia through a clever role reversal. Proceeds from iTunes downloads of the video will go towards the nonprofit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The song can be heard on Modest Mouse’s EP No One’s First, and You’re Next, which also comes out today. (via Spin)

The sad and real truth of Heath Ledger’s death is slowly starting to be revealed as more and more news of his unfinished work starts to become known to the world. Which included a completed, but unreleased Modest Mouse video and a planned Nick Drake biopic.
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