{"id":106515,"date":"2020-11-06T19:51:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/johnny-depp-will-not-play-grindelwald-in-future-fantastic-beasts-films\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:51:24","slug":"johnny-depp-will-not-play-grindelwald-in-future-fantastic-beasts-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/johnny-depp-will-not-play-grindelwald-in-future-fantastic-beasts-films\/","title":{"rendered":"#Johnny Depp will not play Grindelwald in future ‘Fantastic Beasts’ films"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Johnny Depp will not play Grindelwald in future ‘Fantastic Beasts’ films<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Depp played Gellert Grindelwald in \"Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them\" and \"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.\"<\/source><\/source><\/picture>
\nDepp played Gellert Grindelwald in “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” and “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”
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Johnny Depp announced on Instagram<\/a> that he will no longer play Gellert Grindelwald in the Harry Potter spinoff series<\/a> Fantastic Beasts<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His Instagram post clarified that Warner Bros. asked him to “resign” from his role and that he “agreed to that request.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. decision to ask Depp to abandon the role he has played in both Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them<\/em> and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald<\/em> came less than a week after Depp lost a libel case<\/a> against a news<\/a>paper that referred to him as a “wife beater” in the context of his ex-wife Amber Heard’s accusations of domestic violence. The article at the center of the libel case also encouraged Warner Bros. to drop Depp from the Fantastic Beasts<\/em> series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ is all out of magic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Depp’s leaked casting in the first Fantastic Beasts <\/em>movie sparked backlash in 2016 because Heard’s domestic abuse accusations were already public knowledge. Some even called for his character to be recast in The Crimes of Grindelwald <\/em>and were ignored by the studio and by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who defended Depp’s casting in a contentious statement.<\/p>\n

In her statement, which dropped before The Crimes of Grindelwald<\/em> premiered in theaters, Rowling wrote that “the filmmakers and I are not only comfortable sticking with our original casting, but genuinely happ<\/a>y to have Johnny playing a major character in the movies.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

It appears that at least the filmmakers have changed their mind about that particular opinion. The future of the Fantastic Beasts franchise remains in flux as the COVID-19 pandemic makes filming anything more difficult, expensive, and dangerous, but when and if the third movie comes out one thing is certain: Johnny Depp won’t be there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

By Alexis Nedd<\/span>