Recently, about 3 million people have signed the petition demanding the removal of Amber Heard from Aquaman 2. The petition was created by Jeanne Larson to address DC Entertainment and Warner Bros with the mission: “Remove Amber Heard From Aquaman 2”. However, the first petition was created in 2020 after Johnny Depp was replaced in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
According to Depp, he was asked to resign by Warner Bros after his controversial separation with Amber and following libel suit against The Sun. According to CNN, Depp undertook to charge the broadsheet over an article published bearing the headline, “GONE POTTY: How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife-beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?”
Following losing the libel prosecution, BBC News reported that judge Andrew Nicol told, The Sun had broadcasted an article accommodating details that were “substantially true”. However, people started to show strong support for Depp since the actor started to take a stand in his $50 million libel case against his wife.
The actor is s-ing his wife as she claims herself as a "public figure representing household insult" which she wrote for the Washington Post in 2018. However, Depp has rejected her proclamations.
According to NBC News, Heard is countersu-ing Depp for $100 million, referring to her behavior only for self-defense or defense of her younger sister. All this news impacted Larson’s Change.org petition to gain new 1 million signatures within a week. The description of the petition reads: “Amber Heard has been uncovered as a maltreater by Johnny Depp.
“In Depp's $50 million cases, he explains various incidents that he faced at the hands of his former wife Amber Heard. He also disclosed one incident where she jabbed him twice in the face. Another incident where she br-oke down his finger with a vodka bottle which resulted in sur-gery and the scar of that will be remaining for the rest of his life.”
The description also included: “As Amber Heard is a known and proven do-mestic mal-treater, Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment should and must remove Heard from their Aquaman 2 film project. They must not ignore the suffering of Heard’s sufferers, and must not glamorize a mal-treater.”
“Men are sufferers, just like women. This must be recognized, and action must be taken to prevent a known maltreater from being celebrated within the entertainment industry. “Do the right thing. Remove Amber Heard from Aquaman 2.”
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will be released next year in March. However, the movie producer, Peter Safran had made a statement that “the movie's creators were never "going to react" to what he described as “pure fan pressure”. “You gotta do what’s best for the movie. We felt that if it’s James Wan and Jason Momoa, it should be Amber Heard. That’s really what it was,” he added.
