(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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