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.
How the fuck does this guy keep finding ways to make the worst decisions possible?
If you were surrounded by yes men and billions of dollars, you too could fail upwards.
I know a lot of people that would be smart enough to get really smart people around them.
You have to be a special kind of narcissist to want yes men around you all the time
Well, you have to be a special kind of greedy fuck to become a billionaire, so that might explain the strange overlap on the venn diagram: They’re already pretty tilted people.
Narcisstists are disabled people and hate against them is ableist. Also there is no psychiatric evidence Musk is a narcissist.
Now I’ve heard everything
Well that’s a comment.
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She touched his PP
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?
Please don’t give Hollywood anymore ideas
Nah prolly just wearing a trench coat cuz she’s an idiot.
Narcissists cannot process that anything could happen and not be directly related to them.
These were therapy notes, never meant to be made public. She never accused him of this, she was talking something through with her therapist. That does not a narcissist make.
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.
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What a simp
Neckbeard ass Elon
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!
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
Shoot Heard, Depp, and Musk all into the sun please.
What did Depp do?
Johnny Depp was a toxic boyfriend and a chronic substance abuser. So was Heard, but the fact she’s a dumpster fire of a human being doesn’t make Depp a saint despite what the internet tried to tell you.
Just two shitty human beings who made each other miserable.
I have to admit I didn’t really follow any of the news, but the little I did see I summed up as a couple of assholes.
Depp probably has been shitty a lot, but the evidence suggests she’s far worse, they are not equal as you seem to suggest
I was going to ask this. Feel like people hate him because it was a he said she said of who originally was the abuser, unless I missed something. Don’t really follow celebs so it’s possible.
The trial showed they were just both pieces of shit. The argument of if one is “at fault” for the other of that specific divorce doesnt matter to the end that it showed neither are good people.
Comes with stardom, I guess.
Neither are good people, but I have never seen so much hatred towards one person on the internet than what was directed towards Amber Heard. Literal child murderers don’t get so much hate. And I think, with so much hate towards the one side, people automatically assume the other must be a wonderful human being.
And / or it’s just sexism. Reminded me a bit of the hatred towards that one woman in the show Tiger King.
Yeah, you say that, but in my internet circles all I heard was a poor target and depp was a demonic, twisted abuser who gleefully dragged his ex by the hair through the public mud for having the audacity of trying to escape his abuse.
They were both demonized. People just picked a horse to back.
I am not talking about anecdotal internet bubbles or your personal friend group but the overall tone online or in social media.
People like Kevin Spacey, Ezra Miller, etc. did worse and got much less hatred. Even though they were much more famous actors.
I didn’t even know who Amber Heard was and the vitriol online was so bad I thought she was a serial killer at first lol
Half of twitter, specific substantially sized subreddits, the majority of tumblr, and a healthy amount of facebook for some reason, actually. Im hardly friends with websites.
The “”“overall tone of the internet”“” was just the twitter accounts and subreddits you happened to frequent. Not that theres anything wrong with that, mind. But the vitriol was equally abundant for depp.
First time Ive ever heard someone say miller is more famous than jack sparrow tho. Pretty sure he became famous for his crime spree. A spree so cut and dry obviously wrongdoing there was literally nothing to get riled up about. Spacey does have the fame, but… again, rape of a minor is pretty cut and dry heinous. You write them off as evil and move on.
Heard and depp were an argument. It got vitriolic because people picked a wrongdoer and argued with people who “picked wrong” and whipped themselves into frenzies. Kinda cant do that without someone to disagree with.
You’re willfully blind if you’re seriously asking that
And you’re willfully dodging the question
You could just admit that you don’t care that he’s a creep, borderline pedo and an abusive jackass. I don’t have to waste my time giving you the facts just so you can ignore them.
Oh and I forgot to mention he’s an alcoholic and a drug addict, but I’m sure you think those people are trustworthy.
What the fuck is your problem dude? I asked for some discussion on why a person is shitty, and you go on to be a shitty fucking person to me just for asking you a damn question! Fuck off with your attitude, I just wanted to know what was so wrong with some famous prick I don’t know about.
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It’s a legitimate question. If you followed the trial, it was pretty clear that Heard lied through her teeth about a large number of things and was working hard to make him look horrible. I don’t follow celebrity stuff much, but other than being gleeful about her downfall, which honestly seems reasonable, I’m not sure what he did.
There are tapes of him drunkenly screaming and destroying furniture. There are some other things he admitted to, which I don’t completely recall right now. There are the SMS he sent with fantasies of “burning and drowning” Heard. All in all, the impression I got from that trial wasnt a very favourable character for Depp.
Okay, thanks. I didn’t get the impression that he was anything close to a perfect human getting, and I’m not in the vicinity of being a fanboy, but that trial seemed pretty one sided: she being a horrible, abusive, lying sack of shit, and him hating her but not lying or being abusive.
If breaking furniture and threatening to burn and drown your girlfriend isn’t abuse, then I must have missed something.
Or maybe it’s just that abusers always stand up for other abusers and that says it all about the people who defend the guy online. Especially when he’s a complete stranger to them and they’re paying money to get court records so they can talk shit about Amber Heard on his behalf. Not pathetic at all.
Wow, so anyone who doesn’t see Depp in the same light as Heard must be an abuser? That’s quite an overreach.
The only evidence I saw of Depp threatening to kill Heard was Hesrd’s testimony. The same testimony that was so full of proven falsehoods.
If you did watch the whole trial, not just the Depp PR clips that were disseminated, you could also see how Depp was also an abuser and a creep. But even if heard, who was also abusive had never met Depp, you’d see a whole life of questionable creepiness out of Depp. It’s funny how everyone rips on DiCaprio but Depp is even creepier. His new gf is like 25, he’s a gross old man.
I think the old guys constantly dating the younger women is gross, but as long as they’re all adults it’s a legal kind of gross. I didn’t watch any social media coverage of the trial; my wife watched pretty much all of it and summarized it for me in the evenings, sometimes showing me interesting parts. I saw Depp saying some shitty things, but didn’t see him committing purgery or being overly abusive as Heard clearly did/was. I just don’t see them as equivalent.
The texts he sent, detailing how he wanted to rape, murder and dispose of her body were too far for me, and how he asked his friend if he wanted in on it. That’s not a sane man, no matter what she did to him. And if you look through the whole thing, even though she was worse and lost the case, he was also abusive and drunk/high. Both fed off each other’s toxicity till it blew up. He had great PR though, and the backing of the men’s right types, so he got away fairly clean. Just because someone won a court case doesn’t mean he’s a saint or good person.
Ok, so enlighten everyone.
What am I your Google? Besides, it’s likely you know what he does but don’t care. The texts exchanged between him and Paul Bettany were psychotic and inexcusable. But beyond heard, he’s a 60 year old man who dates 20 year olds and has a penchant for manipulation and abuse. He had great PR during the trial though. Two abusive sacks of shit start fighting, and suddenly everyone thinks Depp is excused for his abuse because he plays a pirate good
Hmm, still no sources. You’re the one making the claim, you have to provide the evidence.
Lol dude there’s court transcripts detailing their mutual abuse, and verified texts where he’s asking Paul Bettany to help him rape and kill Amber.
If you don’t care that he’s an abuser fine, but don’t act like it didn’t happen
What did Depp do?
What did Depp do?
Did any of them go to high school? Because their real life seems like the worst high school ever.
could we make it the far side of the moon? It be a huge fuel savings and we’d never have to see them and their “landing” site again.
Yeah, When I saw her in the trailer I was done with the movie. I will just watch Pitch Meeting instead.
Okay. Okay okay okay okay.
Wowowowow… Wow
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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
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Stop counting your debt, start counting that of others who profit from your efforts.
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I… uhm… sure. Maybe? Idk. Do what you feel is best!
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.
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.
What a braindead take. Very edgy, you must be proud
What a dumb opinion.
So brave.
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.
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I wonder if Heard did a turd on Musk and he liked it.
She never shit on the bed. Or did a ton of things that were claimed by falsified evidence.
We’re all going to look back on this trial as a modern crucifixion of a woman in a highly publicized trial, a la Anita Hill and Monica Lewinski, and so so many more. The worst part is that we as a culture would probably claim to have grown since the 90s, but here this is happening right in front of us. The vitriol I’ve seen spewed about Amber Heard on the internet…many serial killers don’t get as much hate. And hers wasn’t even a criminal trial. Just a defamation suit.
Do you have the hots for amber turd, do you want her to shit in your mouth? You kinky dinky you.
Weakest troll bait I’ve ever seen
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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 removed for once…
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.
Yeah but he used a ton of other people’s money to buy Twitter and destroy it, and even as the worst investment in history, there’s immense political value in letting him shit the bed with his new toy. He wouldn’t be able to get financing to spite-fuck WB because he’s a whiny little baby.
Ok? What does any of that matter? He has literally no control over WB no matter how much he’s worth.
Let me try to keep it simple for you.
In capitalism money is power, man with lot of money have lot of power. Ooga booga strong arm your whole company.
The only way Musky uses his “power” is trying to bully people with his cohort of sycophants, or by giving them money to buy them out. Neither really scream “Do what I say, or else!”
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.
Maybe… But the far right also famously hates Amber Heard, as they were ones pushing much of the negative media attention against her during the public trial. Hell, the Daily Wire (Ben Shapiro’s outlet) was running an entire ad campaign against her. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Heard, the idea Musk could believably threaten anyone with “the far right” in this situation isn’t realistic.
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.
He could remove their blue label on the network formerly known as twitter.
