Controversial Heath Ledger scene to be cut from The Dark Knight?

A scene in 2008's highly-anticipated Batman sequel The Dark Knight may be excised from the final cut, as it contains a scene of a body-bagged Heath Ledger. In the scene, Ledger's Joker is said to be feigning death, but reactions to the moment at preview screenings have made Warner Brothers' executives nervous.

According to Cinema Blend, audiences reacted badly to seeing the late Ledger - who died of a mis-dose of prescription drugs on the 22nd of January only days after concluding photography on Christopher Nolan's next instalment of the Batman re-boot - pictured in the body bag.

Let's hope reaction to this news causes Warners to leave the scene in; Ledger seems to have given a dedicated and committed performance in The Dark Knight, and in our opinion it would disrespect his efforts to reinterpret his work - in a film that will have a long shelf-life - just because the sad memory of his early demise is stil painfully fresh.