The Dark Knight is scheduled to hit the theatres on July 18, but the role of the late actor Heath Ledger in the film is already eliciting strong applauds. The role of Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight is being liked by the people so much that Oscar winning actor Sir Michael Caine says he might even receive a posthumous Oscar nomination for it. ‘I think he will get a posthumous Oscar nomination at least. I just watched him and talked to him for three days and I thought he was extraordinary,’ Sir Michael Caine remarked. 

Those who worked with Heath Ledger often heard him complaining that he could not sleep and that his mind was always working. Heath therefore had to take sleeping pills as his last resort, which too often failed to have any affect on him. It was on the morning of january 22, 2008 that 28 year-old ‘The Brokeback Mountain’ actor was found dead in his fourth floor loft apartment due to an overdose of medicine.