The Movie: It’s out this week – you can read our reaction for yourself.

Terry’s Trials: The loss of Heath Ledger was almost the end of the film – but thanks to some help from the likes of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, it got finished.

“Providence intervened,” Gilliam says. “I had to be incredibly pragmatic after Heath died. It wasn’t easy. But there was a sense of freedom: I would think, let’s try that because if we don’t do something we’re dead in the water, and if we try that it might work, it might not. Heath took a certain responsibility off my shoulders by not turning up for work.’”

“On top of everything else, we were in mourning. 'This was a deeply loved human being, and he’s not there any longer. Except he was there, on the screen. We’d go into the editing-room every day and say, Heath, you bastard, you really stuck me in the shit here. It was a misery, but turning Heath into the bad guy was a nice way of grieving. But, oh shit, look how good he was!

“Johnny, Jude and Colin, they all did their job brilliantly, but what we’ll never know is what the effect of the film would have been if Heath had played all of it: when the audience suddenly realises how horrible he is – what would that have been like? Because there’s something so sweet about Heath."