Amber Heard Reportedly Feels Like Her Career Is Safe Now

In news that’ll inevitably have her leagues of haters gnashing their teeth, things are good for Amber Heard right now. She’s currently preparing to return to the role of Mera in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom despite the brutal internet campaign to get her booted out of the franchise. The sequel is expected to start shooting later this month: meaning all those stories about her being fired for gaining weight/being uninsurable/backstage conflict were invented in an attempt to harm her.

To put a cherry on top, it’s rumored that she’ll soon become among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. If Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is as big a success as most expect, any residual doubt studios might have about her bringing in negative press may dissolve. But beyond that, leaker Daniel Richtman is claiming that she feels she’s triumphed over her ex-husband Johnny Depp and that her career is now safe.

This comes in the wake of her conclusive legal victory in the High Court in London, where a judge ruled that it wasn’t libelous to describe Depp as a “wife beater”. The trial saw the couple’s dirty laundry extensively aired in public, though it’s Depp who’s ended up looking worse. Heard was further vindicated after the Court of Appeal denied his appeal, saying that the judgment was “full and fair” and that it couldn’t “even arguably” be dismissed on an error of law.

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But Heard shouldn’t count her chickens before they’re hatched. She and Depp are going head-to-head in the Virginia courts next year, where they’re suing each other for defamation. That’s the plan anyway: Heard’s legal team is trying to get Depp’s case thrown out now, arguing that the London court has already ruled on the facts. That’s naturally being resisted by Johnny’s lawyers, who call her move “the latest Hail Mary.”

It’s worth remembering that pride comes before a fall, so Amber Heard better not feel too triumphant until Virginia wraps up. Even so, with her about to reprise her biggest role and Depp struggling to find work, it’s difficult to deny that she’s on top.

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Doctor Strange 2 Writer Says The Film Takes Things In A Scarier Direction

Michael Waldron has appeared out of nowhere to become a firm favorite of Kevin Feige, having initially been hired as the head writer of Loki. His work impressed the Marvel Studios boss enough that he was paired up with Sam Raimi to crack the story for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and now he’s also set to pen Feige’s in-development Star Wars movie as part of a first-look deal with Disney.

It’s been a meteoric rise to say the least, and based on the very little we know so far, the Sorcerer Supreme’s sequel is shaping up to be one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most exciting blockbusters yet. Elizabeth Olsen has teased a horror show vibe, and various rumors have touted it as the franchise’s most fear-driven effort to date.

That’s a little ironic when you consider original director Scott Derrickson helmed Sinister and its sequel, along with The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Deliver Us from Evil, but Raimi is hardly a slouch when it comes to scares either as the brains behind The Evil Dead series and Drag Me to Hell. In a new interview, Waldron teased that when he boarded Multiverse of Madness, he picked up from where the previous creative team left off by taking the story in a scarier direction.

“Yeah, I mean I think you know that’s obviously something that Scott Derrickson, the director of the first movie, does so well. Obviously that influence, you feel it in the first one. Even though it’s not a horror movie, there is like this sort of spookiness throughout it. It’s part of what makes that movie work so well and everything.

So when we came onto this one, we were, I felt so fortunate, the work he’d done on the first one, the work that he and the previous writer on the second one, Jade Bartlett, you know they’ve done some work on the second one, and it’s like you just dive in. In this case, COVID just gave me and Sam more time to make it our own thing. It’s cool, I’m glad that there was the chance to maybe push in a slightly scarier direction. Just because Sam does that so well.”

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Nobody would try and argue that Benedict Cumberbatch’s first solo outing is one of the MCU’s top tier efforts, but Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness certainly possesses more than enough potential to ascend to that pantheon. The cast and crew are all proven talents, with the concept perfectly lending itself to a wild, weird, wonderful and potentially terrifying adventure.

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WB Reportedly Wants To Make Fun Of Batman V Superman’s Martha Scene

After spending years vociferously defending it from detractors, Zack Snyder finally resigned himself to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice‘s infamous Martha scene being reduced to a pop culture punchline.

As is often the case with the filmmaker’s work, the logic and intentions behind it were sound, but the execution was narratively lacking. Snyder interprets it as a poetic and beautiful moment of symmetry that causes a vengeful billionaire to stop himself from pummeling an immigrant to death, but it didn’t quite land as intended given that their conflict had resulted in a five-minute scrap before they became best buddies.

It’s been used as a method to beat Snyder’s heavy-handed storytelling techniques over the head for years now, and a new rumor claims that Warner Bros. are keen to stick it to their former employee by having a future DC project openly mock the revelation that the company’s two biggest icons just happen to have moms with the same name.

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There’s no word on where this is supposed to happen, or why WB would be so openly spiteful and vindictive towards somebody they handed almost a billion dollars of their money to so that he could deliver three comic book blockbusters that are still generating no shortage of discussion and debate, but the whole Martha-bashing thing has become more than a little passe.

After all, Batman v Superman was released over five years ago, and it’s been three since Ryan Reynolds mocked it in Deadpool 2, so the reference doesn’t hold much cache or sway anymore. Not only that, but looking at how SnyderVerse supporters have reacted towards any slight on their hero, all it would serve to do is piss people off even more.

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