A source told Variety that Rowling approved of Depp’s exit, but she has not yet publicly addressed it. Depp received his full $16 million salary for the third film nonetheless, after having shot just one scene. publicly thanked Depp for his service, but cast Mads Mikkelsen in the third installment. As noted by Variety, AT&T had merged with Warner Bros.’ parent company, Time Warner, resulting in a leadership change that had less tolerance for “courting mercurial-but historically popular-talent like Depp.” Warner Bros. The tide changed, however, when unpleasant details emerged in Depp’s first libel trial and he lost the case, leading him to resign from the franchise at Warner Bros.’ request. I can only tell you about the man I see every day: He’s full of decency and kindness, and that’s all I see.” Rowling released her own statement of support: “Based on our understanding of the circumstances, the filmmakers and I are not only comfortable sticking with our original casting, but genuinely happy to have Johnny playing a major character in the movies.”ĭepp would go on to appear in 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in a larger role, fan outcry be damned. “With Johnny, it seems to me there was one person who took a pop at him and claimed something. “Honestly, there’s an issue at the moment where there’s a lot of people being accused of things, they’re being accused by multiple victims, and it’s compelling and frightening,” Yates told Entertainment Weekly. (Depp sued The Sun’s executive editor and its publisher, News Group Newspapers, for libel after the British tabloid used the term “wife-beater” to describe him in a 2018 headline. Depp is suing Heard for $50 million after she wrote a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she said she was a domestic abuse survivor. A second defamation trial between Amber Heard and Depp, who was cast as the villainous Grindelwald to Jude Law’s Dumbledore, began this week in Virginia. The first scandal that plagued Fantastic Beasts threatens to never end.
theaters this Friday, the series has already inspired headlines like Time’s “Just Cancel the Fantastic Beasts Franchise Already” and Entertainment Weekly’s “ Fantastic Beasts is now the world’s most problematic movie franchise.” THE DECLINE OF DEPP As the third film, The Secrets of Dumbledore, arrives in U.S. Rowling to make her screenwriting debut, casting newly crowned best-actor-Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, and enlisting David Yates, who helmed the final four Potter films, to direct.īut somewhere between Johnny Depp’s public fall from grace and Vladimir Putin’s comparison of Russia’s plight to Rowling’s cancellation, Fantastic Beasts seemed to take on more baggage than it could carry. Fantastic Beasts had all the makings of a slam dunk for Warner Bros.: spinning off from the hit Harry Potter series, luring author J.K.
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