Elon Musk allegedly came to Amber Heard‘s defense amid talks his former partner would be fired from “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.”
Per a new Variety report, the Tesla and X (formerly known as Twitter) owner is reported to have strong-armed Warner Bros. into keeping Heard cast as Mera in DC’s long-delayed “Aquaman” follow-up.
According to Variety, Warner Bros. and “Aquaman” director James Wan sent a letter to Heard’s attorney Karl Austen after the film‘s 2018 release to share the decision that Heard would be dropped from the sequel, citing a lack of chemistry with star Jason Momoa.
However, per Variety, Warner Bros. decided not to fire Heard after her former boyfriend Musk and his attorney sent a “scorched-earth letter to Warner Bros. threatening to burn the house down” if Heard was not back in the sequel.
DC Studios could not immediately be reached by IndieWire for comment.
Rumors that Heard would be fired from the “Aquaman” franchise resurfaced amid the defamation trial with Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp, with the suit filed in 2019 followed by televised court proceedings in 2022. Heard alleged Depp led a PR “smear campaign” against her, resulting in a “very pared-down version” of her original “Aquaman 2” role.
“I fought to keep my job and the biggest movie opportunity I had to date [with] ‘Justice League’ with the option to [star in] ‘Aquaman.’ I had to fight really hard to stay in ‘Justice League’ because that was the time of the divorce,” Heard said while on the stand. “I was given a script [for ‘Aquaman 2’] and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that had action in it, that depicted my character and another character, without giving any spoilers away, two characters fighting with one another, and they basically took a bunch out of my role.”
Reportedly, Heard appears in only 10 minutes of the sequel. Wan told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year that the sequel was never meant to focus on Heard’s character.
Also during the trial, notes of Heard’s therapy sessions were included in court documents, which Depp fans later paid to access and shared online. Heard claimed while in therapy that “Aquaman” co-star Jason Momoa drunkenly harassed her on set, including, per her point of view, dressing up as Depp.
Heard’s notes read, “Jason said he wanted me fired. Jason drunk — late on set. Dressing like Johnny. Has all the rings too.”
A DC spokesperson told Variety, “Jason Momoa conducted himself in a professional manner at all times on the set of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.'”
An insider who was on the London set in 2021 told Variety, “He isn’t dressing like Johnny Depp. He has always dressed in that bohemian style.”
“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” is set for a December 20 release date.
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Heard’s notes read, “Jason said he wanted me fired. Jason drunk — late on set. Dressing like Johnny. Has all the rings too.”
Something about that really made me laugh.
It’s peak nut job rambling, making absurd connections and taking offence to random shit.
Jason Momoa, a 193cm tall muscular motherfucker “dressed up as Johnny Depp”? Did she just hallucinate Twins 2?
I want Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage to remake Twins
Please don’t give Hollywood anymore ideas
It would be funnier if she was was right tho.
The more I know about Musk, the more I long for the day he is no longer of this existence. What sucks the most is he will probably live longer than me and I’ll have to learn new and existing things about how his influence has changed the world… Usually not in a better direction.
Very glad to see the tide turning on Musk
What a simp
Neckbeard ass Elon
Super hero movies and the efforts of everyone involved with them are a detriment to this planet as much as they are to art.
no need to hate on union riggers, drivers, gophers, sparkies, chippies, LX, steadycam ops etc
they’re just doing their job. and a good one
Super hero movies are just a fad that overstayed its welcome and studios are going to have to think of something else now. No need to read anything more into them than that.
Superhero movies date back to 1937 with The Shadow Strikes, featuring The Shadow
It is neither a fad, nor will it go anywhere. They are here to stay.
They might just become less prevalent, like the Cowboy movies of the 1980’s.
They were not what they are now until the Iron Man movie, or the Batman trilogy.
Yes they are a fad. Yes there have been superhero movies on occasion. But what has happened in the last 15 years is a fad. Studios saw it as a cheap and easy way to produce a summer blockbuster and it is clear in the last few years that people are getting seriously bored of them.
Exactly. There have been superhero movies prior to this, but the last decade of DC / Marvel is something else and it’s clear people are getting bored with it. It’s a fad. A bit like how Hollywood had fads about 3D, or natural disasters, or scifi, or cowboys & indians. At some point audience viewers get fed up with it and they have to come up with something new. I’m sure there will be Batmans & Spidermans and other reboots from time to time, but not a constant production line.
Yes they are a fad. Yes there have been superhero movies on occasion. But what has happened in the last 15 years is a fad. Studios saw it as a cheap and easy way to produce a summer blockbuster and it is clear in the last few years that people are getting seriously bored of them.
What a dumb opinion.
So brave.
I don’t agree they have to be, but I do agree they almost universally are, especially modern ones. None of them do anything new or interesting, and none of them try to address complex topics.
Drunk Jason Momoa dressing up as Johnny Depp?! Lmao
He used to go to the same saloon in Seattle that I frequented. I met him right before he started filming Conan. He was a funny guy. I bet he was hilarious mocking Depp to irk Heard. Wish I could have seen that!
Imagine how much better Aquaman would have been if Emilia Clarke had been cast opposite Jason again. Those two have so much chemistry.
She’s not gonna fuck you, Melon
I’d say she did already.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/06/elon-musk-breaks-up-with-amber-heard-report-says/
Yeesh, scumbags really do attract other scumbags
Maybe I should pull a Josh Brolin and play Mera too, just to annoy Musk.
Zero explanation on the replacement, it’s not like the recent DCEU movies are doing great right now, might as well as try something crazy.
Plus, it’ll be really funny.
Part of me hopes this is really Margot Robbie but most of me knows it’s not.
Just in case: You kicked ass in Barbie
- Of course I am. I did like a whole promotional campaign for that movie here before the strike and everything.
- Of course I did. I’m the best part of literally every movie I’m in, especially for the movie I am not allowed to promote right now.
- You can’t promote the movie, but can you talk about it? It’s just friendly talk among friends, you know, like colleagues complaining of working on “project x”, stuff that’s definitely not going to become public at all
I do push it a bit far here sometimes, but I would rather not scab…
Part of me hopes it’s shittymorphs new schtick.
As a real, professional actor and also as a contributing user of Lemmy, I resent being compared to a reddit novelty account with only one non-sequitur joke that wasn’t even that funny (even to wrestling fans) to begin with.
There is going to be a reboot after the next Flash movie. You should audition!
How is the production on almost every DCEU film such a shitshow behind the scenes. We had all the Justice League stuff, The Rock throwing his weight around and cratering Back Adams chances and now this.
Honestly, i don’t care if it’s him wasting his money on shit like this that doesn’t cause harm (except for the poor guy having to craft a response letter) on other people. His money, his and Warner Bros’ problems.
Now if he could simply fund Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink quietly without going retard for once…
Lol, oh my, the surprise, Narcissists stick together.
I can’t imagine what traction Musk could possibly believe he has here. He has no standing. The fact that WB acquiesced means they are idiots.
Musk is a piece of shit and detriment to society, Heard is a run of the mill rich cunt, and Aquaman is a dumb superhero so I was never going to watch anyhow.
This is one of those “wut?” moments. I wouldn’t be surprised if WB just said f it and kept her in because this movie will bookend the current iteration DCEU franchise so it hardly matters one way or the other.
#JamesGunn and #JasonMamoa have both confirmed this #Aquaman movie will be the end of the #Snyderverse and the old #DCEU. Mamoa will be coming back ONLY as #Lobo– if he comes back at all.
Early showings of the film (and trailer analyses) say Arthur & Mera have an infant son who is vital to the plot, so she is vital to the film.
Previous reports say that most of her scenes were filmed prior to the trial. But post-trial, there was editing done to minimize her time on screen.
Says he strong armed them to change their decision, i dont think he has the ability.
Right? It says he went “scorched-earth”, but that implies he has any sway over WB decisions. What would he do if they don’t listen to him? Whine about it on Twitter?
The entire market cap of WB Discovery is less than he’s already lost on Twitter. Their cap is about $25B. Musk spent $44B on Twitter and has absolutely destroyed it like a bull in a china shop to the point that it’s now worth less than $10B, with some estimates coming in between $4-5B.
That said, the far right movement in this country is such that he can hang a legitimate threat over people and companies just by his outsized media presence.
I’d love to see the content of the letter.
Ok? What does any of that matter? He has literally no control over WB no matter how much he’s worth.
I would imagine the most threatening thing would be that he’d fund her tieing them up in litigation until they caved out paid her a settlement worth me than her contract.
Welcome to America, the land of paying your own court costs.
To put it another way, you can set a pile of money on fire, and your opponent either has to do the same or give you what you want. You can only make the other guy pay you back in certain types of lawsuits, and the process can go on for years if you burn enough money
Musk is a billionaire with anger issues currently going through some kind of mid-life crisis, and has spent months dancing around the largest money fire in history, regularly loudly throwing on more fuel (just in case some of the money remains unburnt)
And btw, you can sue anyone for any reason… the judge just might throw out the case if it’s too dumb
WB doesn’t care about frivolous lawsuits, even from someone as rich as musk. Unless they were sued by him thousands of times at once, their legal costs are already baked into their financials, and if they were sued thousands of times at once, that’d be the easiest dismissal in history, as well as the quickest countersuit for damages.
The rich can bully the poor’s with legal fees, but not each other. That’s why we don’t see uncountable fruitless lawsuits between the powerful - it wouldn’t do anything.
He could always just publicly massively overbid on a hostile takeover of WB to push his weight around which backfires when he realizes he’s paying way too much and gets sued into going through with the purchase anyways because its a massive golden parachute for the top brass at WB that far exceeds any profits they had planned to produce in the next 10 years. Then he can make movies any way he wants.
