Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: The Movies They Will Make and What Can Happen to Their Careers

Known the verdict of the most media trial in recent years, between Johnny Depeg his ex-wife, also an interpreter Amber felta question to be defined is what will happen with the artistic path of both.

The question to be answered in the future, more immediate than mediated, is whether the damage after the trial – more than the verdict, the exposure they suffered – will affect the reputation of bothor not.

And it is known by reputation whether some major Hollywood producer, after paying attention to the testimonies heard, will risk hiring an actor who can arrive on time (or not arrive) to the set of the shoot, due to the abundant consumption of alcohol and drugs and / or an actress who did not convince the jury, not even for her performance and her tears.

It’s that the unpleasant details of the brief marriage that kept them together have been broadcast (and seen) on television by millions.

As it stands, it’s unclear how the audience will respond.

Eric Rose, a crisis management and communications expert in Los Angeles, called the trial a “classic murder-suicide” in terms of damage to both careers, according to an AP cable.

“It’s too risky to put someone like him in a multimillion-dollar franchise now,” said another producer, who has chosen to remain anonymous.

In Depp’s case, while the jury and most people who have spoken out on social media leaned on Depp during the trial, that doesn’t guarantee his box office appeal, especially among women.

Perhaps he will step into independent film, with productions costing no more than $ 5 million, for which he can sign $ 250,000 contracts, play four or five weeks, and set to keep 25% of the profits.

A profitable career

Depp has had a profitable career and enjoyed excellent contracts, not just in recent years. OK, he claimed he lost the $ 22.5 million addition to his bank account that he would have received if he filmed a new sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean.

It is also true that Warner Bros. paid him, dollar for dollar, the 5 million agreed to play Grindelwald. Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secretseven if he said no, don’t worry, he doesn’t need to go to the set.

But what does Johnny do?

How will you pay for the increase in electricity and gas?

Depp voices Johnny Puff puffinsan animated miniseries of short episodes. No, you shouldn’t charge too much.

The last thing that was filmed for cinema, and which premiered in some territories after passing the Berlin Film Festival in 2020, is Minamatawhere he played a famous photojournalist who became famous after his work in World War II, W. Eugene Smith, who in 1971 the editor of the magazine Life Robert Hayes (Bill Nighy) commissions him to cover a story for the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, which was ravaged by mercury poisoning.

And, if everything goes as planned, he will return to the cinema, but French, inside Jean-du-Barryby Maïwenn, actress and director of mon roi Y Police (both premiered at the Cannes Film Festival).

The plot centers on the life of Jeanne Bécu, born the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and raised in the court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

And who was called to be Louis XV? To Johnny.

Who has no other projects in sight, although he said before the start of the trial, that he wants to say goodbye to Jack Sparrow, the protagonist of Pirates of the Caribbean.

But the producer of the franchise, Jerry Bruckheimer, is himself Top Gun Maverickwho now says he’s preparing the script for The legend of the lost treasure to float Nicolas Cage– came out to say a couple of weeks ago that “not for now” you can think of Depp for a new one pirates.

If in fact they have it on their word Margot Robbie to do a kind of reboot of the saga.

And it would be curious if, according to the credits scene Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2017), the fifth and so far last, in which it was revealed that Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) is resurrected, Depp and his partner Minamata act together again.

Depp was nominated for three Oscars, won none, and never slapped anyone in any Academy Award ceremony in Hollywood. Okay, it’s been a long time since he was nominated (for the first Pirates of the Caribbeanfrom Sweeney Todd and from Discovering the Neverland). But always as a protagonist.

Amber the modest

The race of Amber felt is a little more modest, having been nominated for a Razzie for Best, Sorry, Worst Actress for London Fields (2018) and best kiss at the MTV Awards for what she found with Jason Momoa in Aquaman.

Precisely it has to come out next year Aquaman 2 (we’ll see how much they leave out of their performance, which still doesn’t seem to have many scenes) And just like Johnny plans to shoot in Europe, in France, Amber did it in Italy, but speaking in English.

A true merengue, because he co-starred with the Spanish Eduardo Noriega in the fire, is a New York doctor who travels to a remote plantation in the 1890s to care for a disturbed boy who appears to have inexplicable abilities. She begins to cure the boy, but in doing so she starts a superstition war with the local priest (it would be Noriega), who believes that the boy is possessed by the devil and is the cause of all the ills in the city.

And it is the only confirmed project Run away with mewhich does not have a director, but has a screenwriter (that of the last of Rambo). “An American in Paris falls in love with a model and the two intertwine in the criminal underworld of the European modeling industry,” reads the synopsis.

But if they don’t hurry and pay her, Amber has already warned she doesn’t have the capital to face what the 7-member jury unanimously ruled her ex must pay. Johnny Depp.

“The jury gave me my life back,” he said. Johnny Depp. We wait to see if the public will give him back his career.