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Johnny Depp on Friday was expelled from the Fantastic Animals film franchise days after losing a libel case in Britain against a tabloid that branded him a “wife beater.”
The A-list actor, writing on Instagram, said that AT&T Inc’s Warner Bros film studio had asked him to step down from his role as villain Gellert Grindelwald. “I have respected and accepted that request,” he said.
Warner Bros said in a statement that Depp “will leave the Fantastic Animals franchise “, and that its role would be recast.
Depp recently resumed production on the third film of the spin-off of Harry Potter author JK Rowling. Warner Bros said Friday that its release date has been pushed back to summer 2022 from November 2021.
Rowling, herself a survivor of domestic abuse, declined to comment on Depp’s departure.
His departure marked a relatively rare move from Hollywood to recast an actor on ethical grounds.
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Depp, 57, who plans to appeal the London defamation judgment, wrote that “his life and career will not be defined at this time.”
the pirates of the Caribbean star had sued the editors of the Sun newspaper after he said he had been violent towards his ex-wife Amber Heard, 34. The newspaper also questioned his choice in the Fantastic Animals franchise.
The three-week defamation trial in July heard evidence from Depp and Heard about a stormy marriage marked by violence on both sides and Depp’s heavy drinking. The judge on Monday ruled against Depp.
Rowling had been criticized in 2017 for casting Depp in the first Fantastic Animals film after the initial details of her divorce from Heard in 2016 were released.
Rowling said at the time that the circumstances of the divorce were a private matter. Warner Bros. also said in 2017 that it supported the decision to keep Depp.
Fantastic Animals, based on the magical adventures of Newt Scamander, is set about 60 years before the Harry Potter movies, but it features several of the same key characters when they were younger.
The first two of the five planned films made $ 1.5 billion at the worldwide box office, according to Box Office Mojo.
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