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“The Dark Knight” star died of an accidental overdose, and director Stephen Gaghan claimed on a recent podcast appearance that the Australian actor had other aspirations at the time. During an episode of the “Developmental Hell” podcast, a spin-off of Malcom Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” show, Gaghan said he had an idea in the early 2000s to turn Gladwell’s book, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” into a movie. But after Ledger’s death, “I just had to put a pin in it,” he said.
In 2008, after the “Brokeback Mountain” star’s tragic passing, Gaghan got a call from Ledger’s father, Kim, and Ledger’s friend, breaking the news about his death. “They were there with the body and our script was in bed with him, and your book was on the bedside table,” Gaghan said. “I think my number was on the script, like, written.
These guys, as you can imagine, they are in shock, and they dialed that number, and I don’t know why.”Gaghan, 58, is best known for writing and directing the 2005 political thriller “Syriana,” and he also won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for writing Stephen Soderbergh’s 2000 film, “Traffic.” On the podcast, Gaghan and Gladwell said that they teamed up to make Gladwell’s 2005 book “Blink” into a movie, with Leonardo DiCaprio, 49, in the starring role. However, throughout the process, they ended up deciding that Ledger would be better for the role, Gaghan said. DiCaprio was “really involved” in pitching the movie to studios, and they had “essentially a green light at Universal [Studios]” for the project.
But, after Gaghan met Ledger, his vision for the movie changed, he said. “I had met Heath Ledger and I’d gotten to be very very close with him instantly. I just had a real connection with him that
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