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Christopher Nolan said he was still editing the Batman Begins sequel, in which Ledger played The Joker, when the actor died of a prescription drug overdose in January.
He is quoted as saying: "He was already on another film. It was months and months since we'd wrapped. We had really cut a lot of the film together and watched the film a couple of times and were about halfway through the edit process.
"Unfortunately he'd only seen the prologue, the introduction to his character shot with these Imax cameras and put out as a short film in Imax for Christmas."
Nolan added: "We screened it for him and he enjoyed it very much. It gave him a taste of how it was going to come across but I was never able to show him his finished performance and that's very sad."
The Dark Knight, which also stars Christian Bale and Michael Caine, is released in the UK on July 25.
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