The layoffs of Warner Bros. and The Walt Disney Company, the withdrawal of his Netflix movies, and his legal problems endangered Johnny Depp’s career. The big studios do not want to collaborate with the actor classified as an “aggressor wife” after his legal problems with Amber Heard and have to reinvent themselves in the industry.
Depp will not return as Jack Sparrow in the next installments of “Pirates of the Caribbean” and has been replaced by Mads Mikkelsen in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” as Gellert Grindelwald, his most iconic roles in recent years. His bet to relaunch his career will be the low-budget cinema.
Hollywood and film journalist Daniel Richtman recently assured on his Patreon channel that 57-year-old Johnny Depp has explored several proposals to continue to generate revenue after losses. he also had his expenses in lawyers.
Although it is true that the performer made a significant fortune for his successful performances in cinema and what he generated with his rock band “Hollywood Vampires”, he must maintain his capital.
Judicial battle with Amber Heard
Depp, who was awaiting the approval of a Virginia judge to set aside a lawsuit against Amber Heard for defamation and $ 100 million, received the opposite: the judge denied her request for annulment and upheld the actress’ complaint as well.
Heard filed the complaint for the aforementioned amount and the reason for the “smear campaign” against her, which caused cyber aggression against her, with requests even for expulsion from “Aquaman 2”, a Warner Bros. gang and in which the role of Mera will return. .
Johnny Depp has to sue the verdict in the case of “The Sun”, a media outlet that called him a “wife aggressor” and brought a verdict in court for alleged defamation. In addition, a lawsuit against Amber Heard for libel will begin in May, after her former partner published an article about gender violence in “The Washington Post” in 2018.