Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has had an October release date in countries such as the UK and Australia for a while. Now Sony Classics have set a December 25th release date so that US audiences can see Heath Ledger’s final outing.

The film tells the story of Dr Parnassus and his extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to pay tribute to Ledger, and to help finish the film.

Here’s the trailer:

We have a new trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which I am sure most of you know is Heath Ledger’s last film. Filming had not finished when he died and Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to pay tribute to him, and help finish the film. We get glimpses of them in this trailer. The film tells the story of Dr Parnassus and his extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will be released on October 16th in the UK, but it still needs to find a distributor in the US.

Quick Stop Entertainment have gotten their hands on a rather different teaser trailer for Terry Gilliam’s upcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Most of you may be aware that this was Heath Ledger’s last film before he died, and his role was completed by Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell.

The teaser trailer is more of a behind the scenes look at the film, with very little footage and lots of concept drawings and storyboards. Check it out below!

Heath Ledger’s latest movie, The Dark Knight is currently sitting in the top 30 highest grossing movies of all time, yet his final movie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is not having the same success.

Ledger was half way though filming when he died, and to honor him Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law decided to complete his role. You would think a movie staring those three actors and the fact that it was Ledger’s last film would make distributors fight over it like animals. However, that is not that case.

The biggest problem is director Terry Gilliam, who hasn’t had a hit since Twelve Monkeys back in 1995.

From THR:

“In this market, unless I have a reason to think a movie like this is going to be a slam dunk I’m not going to take a flyer on it, even with Heath Ledger,” one distribution executive said. One specialty exec added few execs at his company had been tracking it.

Financed by Grosvenor Park and produced by Samuel Hadida’s Davis Films, “Parnassus” was said to be close to having footage shown and even a deal made several weeks ago, just as the buzz for “Dark Knight” was reaching fever pitch. But as of late last week, many buyers had yet to see footage.

One longtime distribution guru said “For all the elements in this film, it is a Terry Gilliam picture, and as much as you want a movie of his to be good, you have to be careful.”

Terry Gilliam doesn’t have a very good track record, and the fact that it stars such big actors doesn’t mean it will be any good, and the distributors know that. Although, it would be a shame for Ledger’s last movie to get a small release…and negative reviews.