Heath Ledger’s ex Michelle Williams ‘demanding control’ over his biopic | CPT PPP Coverage

It’s been 14 years since Heath Ledger tragically died at age 28 following an overdose.

But it seems Hollywood is now battling over which Hollywood director will turn the iconic actor’s life into a blockbuster film.

According to Woman’s Day, his ex-fiancee Michelle Williams has been protective of Heath’s private life, while his father Kim Ledger has been more accepting of the fascination with his late son.

Perth-based Kim said he has ‘no doubt’ someone will one day do a biopic about his son’s life and tragic overdose death ‘when the timing is right… [I’m] not sure when that will be’. 

Michelle told People magazine that she is fiercely in support of her best friend, Busy Philipps, to play her in a movie.

‘She knows me better than anyone,’ Michelle, 42, confessed recently.

Sources say if the project does get green-lit, Michelle is determined on making sure her role goes to Busy and that the project focuses on her and Heath’s love story and Matilda’s happy childhood.

‘The idea has long been floating around studio boardrooms, but none of Heath’s friends or family would ever step up to help,’ they added.

However, sources close to Michelle insist ‘movie execs better be careful what they wish for’ when it comes to trying to pull together a film about the love of her life.

‘She is very protective and would want full control over Heath’s story and she won’t budge on things they probably won’t like – for example, casting Busy.’

Heath and Michelle started dating and in less than one year they announced they were expecting a daughter together.

The couple welcomed daughter Matilda, their only child, in October 2005.

Heath died in a New York City apartment on January 22, 2008, after accidentally overdosing on medications following months of physical and mental exhaustion.

Reportedly a drug user on and off for years, things came to a head when he was juggling too many films – including his last role The Dark Knight – on very little sleep and he started relying on various cocktails of prescriptions to shut his mind off.

‘I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going,’ he told The New York Times in an interview in November – just two months before he died at the age of 28.

He was found to have taken a lethal combination of six drugs: two types of narcotics, two types of anti-anxiety medicine and two types of sleep medicine.

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