Heath Ledger Dead At 28

What a tremendous waste.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Actor Heath Ledger is dead, the New York Police Department said Tuesday.

The Academy Award nominated actor was 28. Ledger's housekeeper found him dead in his Manhattan apartment, New York police said.

He died at 3:26 p.m., they said.

The New York Fire Department received a call at 2:27 today responding to a "cardiac arrest call" in New York. They found an unresponsive male dead at the scene. (H/T - CNN)

I don't want to sound completely callous here, but speaking as the biggest Batman Begins fan on the planet, what is going to happen with the sequel? Ledger was playing The Joker in The Dark Knight, and when an actor dies mid-shoot - as we saw in The Crow - the film is never really the same with a replacement. I sincerely hope that the film is done shooting.