Writer-director Stephen Gaghan is sharing new details about a movie he was planning to make with Heath Ledger at the time of the Brokeback Mountain actors death.

Appearing on author Malcolm Gladwells Revisionist History podcast this week, Gaghan recalled his experience developing a film adaptation of Gladwells 2005 book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking , with Leonardo DiCaprio in mind for the starring role.

While working on the Blink script, Gaghan was introduced to Ledger, and ultimately decided that he was better suited for the part.

Id just had a real connection with him that was kind of unusual and really special to me, he explained. I had a feeling that I just love this guy, and I was going to make a bunch of movies with him.

Sadly, those plans came to a halt when Gaghan received a phone call from Ledgers father and one of the actors close friends, who informed him that Ledger had been found dead in New York.

I got a phone call, they were on speakerphone, and it was Heath Ledgers father, who I had never met, he told Gladwell. The dad and the guy who was closest to him in his professional life, they were there with the body. Our script was in bed with him and your book was on the bedside table.