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Johnny Depp Is Done With Pirates Of The Caribbean For Good

Captain Jack's days sailing the seas are over, the actor confirmed.

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Disney cut ties with Johnny Depp some time ago, including any future for his long-running role as Pirates of the Caribbean protagonist Captain Jack Sparrow, but Depp confirmed that is still the case while speaking in court today, Variety reports.

Depp's defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard is going on, and Depp spoke specifically to his future with Disney while answering questions on the stand. During cross-examination, Amber Heard's attorney asked if Depp was truly "out as Jack Sparrow," as described in a Daily Mail article in 2018.

"I wasn't aware of that, but it doesn't surprise me," Depp testified. "Two years had gone by of constant worldwide talk about me being this wife-beater. So I'm sure that Disney was trying to cut ties to be safe. The #MeToo movement was in full swing at that point."

"The fact is, Mr. Depp, if Disney came to you with $300 million and a million alpacas, nothing on this earth would get you to go back and work on a Disney Pirates of the Caribbean film, correct?" asked Heard's lawyer, Ben Rottenborn.

"That is true, Mr. Rottenborn," Depp replied.

The battle between Heard and Depp has been going on for some time, with Heard initially accusing Depp of abuse in 2016, shortly before the two divorced. A Washington Post op-ed written by Heard was published in December 2018 that didn't name Depp but did allude to him, and Depp's suit claims that the piece dealt irreparable damage to his career.

"I would be a real simpleton to not think that there was an effect on my career based on Ms. Heard's words, whether they mentioned my name or not," Depp said. "Once that happened, I lost then. No matter the outcome of this trial, I'll carry that for the rest of my days... I'm suing her over the defamation and the various falsities that she used to bring my life to an end."

A new Pirates of the Caribbean film is currently in development and set to star Margot Robbie, though Disney has not offered any new information about that film's plot or release window.

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.....and millions cut the tie to Disney, just as I did. They destroy legacies, then recreate them in their political views, besides the fact they are SICK.

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@soulcrusher777: Did Disney touch you in your bathing suit area?

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With what's capable through CGI now no one is done with anything as long as someone owns rights to the character you played.

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Johnny's career was instantly affected meanwhile Amber still got to play in Aquaman even after evidence was coming out against her. Gotta love the double standard. Hope that movie fails, no way am I going to see it.

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@rizenstrom: Johnny's career was affected because of his heavy drug abuse.

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@ivangrozny: half of hollywood would be cancelled if that was the case

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@ivangrozny: hes been doing drugs since the 90s and was still a commodity

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Its about time, Johnny. We were done with it 15 years ago.

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It's just so wrong, the way he was railroaded. And then you have Ezra Miller, who was his Fantastic Beasts co-star, who years ago was filmed choking a woman. Makes no sense.

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The pirates movies have been garbage since the 3rd one

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@rohanrocks88: I actually enjoyed all of them. -shrug- saw the first in theaters so it could be just nostalgia

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@rohanrocks88: I only loved the first one and the second one was alright. The third one was boring and too long.

I prefer Jack sparrow as an important side character rather than a main character to focus the story on. The lack of Will and Elizabeth in the other sequels actually hurts his character imo.

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"Johnny Depp Is Done With Pirates Of The Caribbean For Good"

So is the movie going public! Boom, roasted.

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@guavington: You need to put a hyphen between movie-going. Your sentence made it sound like the movie is going public, which doesn’t make sense.

I’m not trying to make fun or be a jerk, this time. That’s just how it’s suppose to be.

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@stickemup: Ahh, I didn't even get the joke until you posted this.

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‘Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.'

Translation, Bitches be Crazy.

HIs career is over, his life is upside down, everything has collapsed around him, but as the great modern poet "Joshua Todd Gruber" once said:

Hey

You're a crazy bitch

But you f*ck so good, I'm on top of it

When I dream, I'm doing you all night

Scratches all down my back to keep me right on

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@dirtydyk: Uh oh. I always thought it was "...like a woman's scorn." Good thing I don't use that one much. 😁

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@liquiddaylight: Heheheheh... I thought the same until i watched the play. You are not alone.

I've also seen someone write "Woman's Corn" once... Ours at least made sense.

The phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" is a misquote from the play "The Mourning Bride". Dates back to the 17th Century.

We've been misquoting this for nearly 400 years.

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@dirtydyk: Woman's corn? Oh my. lol.

Exactly. Like most people, I always thought the first part was as you stated, "Hell hath no fury..." Damn. This is going to take a conscious effort for me to rectify. Then again, since this has been going on for hundreds of years, it's been bastardized into regular, accepted use like so may other words/phrases. To beat 'em or join 'em, that is the question. 😁

You see, this is precisely why I frequent the GameSpot comment section regularly. 😁

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Depp did drugs with Vision lol. That's kind of epic.

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@attirex: Depp does drugs with everybody.

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@thecupidstunts: that right. You can be the close family of his abuser and still do some lines with him. Rick and Morty really hit the nail on the head with that one.

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@thecupidstunts said:

@attirex: Depp does drugs with everybody.

Ok jaded hollywood insider

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@attirex: You don't have to be a hollywood anything to know this.

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@thecupidstunts said:

@attirex: You don't have to be a hollywood anything to know this.

Ok. I've added to my diary.

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@attirex: Considering he admits that he’s done drugs with tons of way bigger celebrities, it’s not epic that he did them with Paul Bettany. People need to stop using “epic” for things that are mundane.

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And this is the problem with any type of "movement" nowadays. Most people are trying to play an angle, unfortunately. Sure, there are the ones that started it, and were most likely sincere, but then you have all the scammers, liars, and frauds that jump on the bandwagon to get a piece of the collective pie.

That woman had balls saying he was a wife beater, then all the in-home video surveillance came out showing her physically assaulting him, throwing liquor bottles at his head, and mauling him like a wild beast, lol. He had them installed to document her abuse on him because of the "Me Too" movement going on, which caused more harm than good for a lot of people.

Soooo... A woman can assault a man and it's ok? Ruin his life and it's ok? Still get roles in movies (no matter how small)?

This is how you know people are bending the knee to the Twitter mobs. Regardless of the so-called "movement" most end up the same way... With the takers, taking.

As for Jack Sparrow... I always thought Depp played that role great! He had the perfect level of quirkyness about him that made it work. Wasn't his fault Disney was milking the series and didn't have good writers. The first movie was fantastic and based off a ride at Disneyland. His performance never wavered, the stories did.

Leave the series alone. It's done, finished, caput. Knowing Disney, we'll get a reboot with a trans Jacklyn Sparrow because Twitter demands it.

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I enjoyed the first 3 movies though they did diminish in quality. From then on they were quite poor.

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Still waiting on that backlash for Heard and her career.
Very much not holding my breath.

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Kudos to the lawyers for asking all the random celibrity questions we all wanna know!

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Hope the best for ya ,2016 is quite a while to now speak up if there was problems ,if so true face your consequences ,if not enjoy life.

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"TIME TO SAYL THE CEES MISTAH J!" -Margot Robbie forgetting what movie shes in

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Rottenborn.. What kinda name is that??
Born Rotten... Good lawyer name tho..

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@Sindroid: sounds like a lawyer in Skyrim.

“Injured? Call The Rottenborn.”

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@olddadgamer: Reminded me of Coraline; Wyborn.

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Let’s be honest here…the only pirates movie that was actually worth a damn was the first one. The rest of them were mediocre at best. I say just leave the series alone and let it be. It had a good run. No need to reboot it. That’s all Hollywood is these days. Sequels, reboots, remakes, prequels, spin-offs, remake the reboot and reboot the remake.

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@dugdiggler: well its because people can't have an original idea anymore, they think they're being clever making spin-offs of characters no one asked for.... looking at you buzz lightyear

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@rohanrocks88: ugh this is such a tired argument. Every great movie is a remake of someone else's story and they've been that way since the beginning.

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@dugdiggler: Sounds like the game industry 😉

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@Vodoo: Sounds like most AAA developers in a nutshell

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I hope they don't try and recast Jack Sparrow. That has fail written all over it. Make another Pirates movie but do it without Sparrow. It's a shame Depp is having his life ruined by a vindictive ex-wife because she can't make a decent living acting other than bit parts because she's a terrible actress. She can't find another sugar daddy because everyone knows what she's like now. Musk had to find that out the hard way as well. The fact is, the only one of the two to ever to be charged with assault is Heard. She wanted a payday and when it didn't work out, she decided to ruin his life.

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@bdrtfm: She's an absolute psycho scumbag.

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@bdrtfmThey will cast Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.. LOLOL!!!
Mark my woooords..

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@Sindroid: No, no, Jason Mamoa!!!

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@Sindroid: crap I want you to be wrong….

But you’re right.

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