A film that’s inevitably been dominated by the fact that it marks the last big screen performance from Heath Ledger, ordinarily it’d be the mere fact that Terry Gilliam was behind the camera for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus that’d be getting us excited. Yet the new trailer for the film, laden with review quotes from people who no doubt caught the film at Cannes, doesn’t do a bad job itself of selling matters.

Starring Ledger, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Christopher Plummer (in the title role), Verne Troyer and Colin Farrell, the film sees four of the actors all playing the same role. This was the strategy used when Ledger tragically died mid-production, and thus his character of Tony will see three transformations throughout the film, which is where Law, Farrell and Depp all step in.

The trailer deliberately doesn’t spoil much of what the film’s about, and thus neither will we. We'll just pass on the news that it’ll be hitting cinemas on 16th October in the UK, with no US release date thus far revealed.

Here's the trailer...