{"id":2990,"date":"2017-04-05T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/04\/05\/new-trailer-debuts-for-movie-about-heath-ledgers-life\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:46:09","slug":"new-trailer-debuts-for-movie-about-heath-ledgers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/04\/05\/new-trailer-debuts-for-movie-about-heath-ledgers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New trailer debuts for movie about Heath Ledger&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nick Romano \/ Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the trailer for Spike TV and Network Entertainment\u2019s <em>I Am Heath Ledger<\/em>, filmmaker Derik Murray (<em>I Am Chris Farley<\/em>) offers an intimate portrait of the actor using never-before-seen home videos\u00a0shot by Ledger. \u201cHe was always a director, acting was just a way to get there,\u201d Trevor DiCarlo, a\u00a0childhood friend, says in the preview.<\/p>\n<p><em>I Am Heath Ledger<\/em> will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23 before hitting select theaters on May 3. The documentary will then air on Spike TV Wednesday, May 17 at 10:00 p.m. ET\/PT, followed by digital and DVD releases on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>The film explores Ledger\u2019s Hollywood rise with roles in\u00a0<em>10 Things I Hate About You<\/em>, <em>The Patriot<\/em>, <em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em>, <em>The Dark Knight<\/em>, <em>Monster\u2019s Ball<\/em>, and more. Naomi Watts, Ben Mendelsohn, director\u00a0Ang Lee,\u00a0and Ledger\u2019s family and friends are some of the interviewed subjects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted fame, and then when he got it, he didn\u2019t want it,\u201d filmmaker Matt Amato\u00a0says.<\/p>\n<p>Ledger was 28 when he\u00a0died in January 2008 after a mixture of prescription drugs. He\u00a0was previously\u00a0the subject of the docuseries <em>Too Young to Die<\/em>, available to watch now on Netflix, in which his father, Kim\u00a0Ledger, revealed pages of his Joker diary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe pretty well locked himself up in a hotel, in his apartment, for a month or so, to sort of galvanize the upcoming character in his own mind,\u201d Kim said. \u201cThat was typical of Heath on any movie. He would certainly immerse himself in the upcoming character. I think this was just a whole new level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer for <em>I Am Heath Ledger<\/em> above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Romano \/ Entertainment Weekly In the trailer for Spike TV and Network Entertainment\u2019s I Am Heath Ledger, filmmaker Derik Murray (I Am Chris Farley) offers an intimate portrait of the actor using never-before-seen home videos\u00a0shot by Ledger. \u201cHe was always a director, acting was just a way to get there,\u201d Trevor DiCarlo, a\u00a0childhood friend, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/04\/05\/new-trailer-debuts-for-movie-about-heath-ledgers-life\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New trailer debuts for movie about Heath Ledger&#039;s life - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/04\/05\/new-trailer-debuts-for-movie-about-heath-ledgers-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New trailer debuts for movie about Heath Ledger&#039;s life - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nick Romano \/ Entertainment Weekly In the trailer for Spike TV and Network Entertainment\u2019s I Am Heath Ledger, filmmaker Derik Murray (I Am Chris Farley) offers an intimate portrait of the actor using never-before-seen home videos\u00a0shot by Ledger. \u201cHe was always a director, acting was just a way to get there,\u201d Trevor DiCarlo, a\u00a0childhood friend, &hellip; 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