A petition to see Amber Read ousted from the “Aquaman” sequel is heading swimmingly.
The 36-yr-outdated actress — who is now embattled in a significant trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp — has incredibly tiny display screen time in subsequent year’s adhere to-up to the 2018 DC movie, according to movie journalist Grace Randolph.
Read, who performs Mera in the “Aquaman and the Shed Kingdom” along with Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, will see “less than 10 minutes of monitor time” in the sequel.
The news comes as a petition proceeds to flow into online that calls for Read to be axed from the film completely, which has just arrived at 3 million signatures.
“Do the appropriate point. Take out Amber Heard from Aquaman 2,” Jeanne Larson wrote in the Alter.org description of the petition, which she established back again in 2020.
The superhero film’s producer, Peter Safran, shut down speculation in July 2021 about Heard’s role.
Safran told Deadline at the time, “I never believe that we’re ever likely to respond to, actually, pure fan force. You gotta do what you come to feel is most effective for the movie. We felt that if it is [director] James Wan and Jason Momoa, it should be Amber Read. That’s really what it was.”
“Listen, just one is not unaware of what is likely on in the Twitterverse, but that does not necessarily mean you have to react to it or choose it as gospel or accede to their needs,” Safran extra. “You have to do what you feel is suitable for the movie, and that is actually where we landed on it.”
The sequel was initially scheduled for a theatrical launch on Dec. 16, 2022, then bumped to March 2023.
Depp, 58, was been dumped by Disney from his position as Captain Jack Sparrow in the fifth “Pirates of the Caribbean” motion picture soon after Listened to alleged she experienced abuse all through their practically two-calendar year relationship in a 2018 op-ed. Citing destruction to his professional standing as a consequence of the essay, Depp has sued Read for defamation, asking for a lot more than $50 million in return.
On Sunday, The Put up uncovered that Listened to has fired her p.r. team — just in time for her to acquire the stand on Tuesday in a Fairfax, Virginia, courthouse. She reportedly switched from disaster p.r. company Precision Procedures to Shane Communications next widespread destructive push amid her court struggle.
“She doesn’t like poor headlines,” a supply said. An additional insider famous that Listened to is “frustrated with her story not staying informed effectively.”
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