Aquaman 2 Producer Peter Safran has reacted to a social media marketing campaign instigated by Johnny Depp supporters in opposition to Hollywood actor Amber Heard.
On Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast, Safran stated, “I don’t think we’re going to react to, honestly, pure fan pressure. You have to do what’s best for the film. We figured if it was (director) James Wan and (star) Jason Momoa, so it must be Amber Heard. It was really like that.”
Heard, who performs Mera in Aquaman, was beforehand married to Depp. He accused her of bodily and verbally abusing her in 2016 and obtained a restraining order, earlier than getting divorced in 2017.
Depp filed a defamation go well with in opposition to the publication after UK tabloid The Sun referred to as Depp a “wife-beater”. NS The verdict was not in Depp’s favor and Heard’s allegations had been discovered to be “substantially true”.. Shortly after the choice, Warner Bros. dropped Depp from the Fantastic Beasts franchise. He was enjoying the principle antagonist Gellert Grindelwald.
Safran, who additionally produced Shazam! And the upcoming The Suicide Squad, stated, “Nobody’s clueless about what’s going on in Twitter-verse, but that doesn’t mean you have to react to it or take it as gospel or their You have to accept the wishes. You have to do what’s right for the film, and that’s really where we landed.”
Aquaman 2 is formally out Title Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. In addition to Wan, Momoa and Heard, it additionally brings again Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
