Johnny Depp will no longer be Gellert Grindelwald in 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'
We will never see Johnny Depp again as Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. For these reasons.
The chameleonic American actor Johnny Depp, whom we know for roles like that of the protagonist of Eduardo Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990), that of Who does Gilbert Grape love? (Lasse Hallström, 1993) or the captian Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean saga (Gore Verbinski and others, since 2003), will not again get into the shoes of the perfidious dark magician Gellert Grindelwald in the film saga that began with Fantastic Beasts and how to find them (David Yates, 2016) and that he continued precisely with The Crimes of Grindelwald (Yates, 2018).
Johhny Depp: "Warner Bros. has asked me to resign my role as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and I have respected and accepted that request"
The interpreter posted a message on Instagram: "I want to let you know that Warner Bros. has asked me to resign from my role as Grindelwald in Fantastic Animals and I have respected and accepted that request." This came after she lost a libel suit in the UK against The Sun tabloid editor News Group Newspapers for an article entitled: “How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' by casting wife abuser Johnny Depp for the new movie 'Fantastic Beasts'? ”, in which he refers to his relationship with his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The article was published in April 2018, and Judge Andrew Nicol dismissed the lawsuit on Monday, November 2, 2020, considering that what is said in it is "substantially true." Faced with this sentence, Johnny Depp has commented on Instagram that "the surreal judgment of the court in the United Kingdom will not change his fight to tell the truth", that he will appeal and that "his determination remains strong and intends to show that the accusations against him they are false ”. And he has finished with the following: "My life and my career will not be defined at this time."
Warner Bros .: "Fantastic Beasts 3 is currently in production and the role of Gellert Grindelwald will be recast"
For its part, a Warner Bros. spokesperson confirmed the news in a brief statement with these words: “Johnny Depp will leave the Fantastic Beasts franchise. We thank Johnny for his work on the movies to date. Fantastic Beasts 3 is currently in production and the role of Gellert Grindelwald will be recast. " That is, the magic probably causes the villain to have one or more faces, in a similar way to the treatment of Colin Farrell's character in the first film. And he concludes: "The film will be released in theaters around the world in the summer of 2022."