embattled in a hefty trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp — has very little screen time in next year’s follow-up to the 2018 DC film, according to film journalist Grace Randolph.Heard, who plays Mera in the “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” alongside Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, will see “less than 10 minutes of screen time” in the sequel.The news comes as a petition continues to circulate online that calls for Heard to be axed from the film altogether, which has just reached 3 million signatures. “Do the right thing.
Remove Amber Heard from Aquaman 2,” Jeanne Larson wrote in the Change.org description of the petition, which she created back in 2020.The superhero film’s producer, Peter Safran, shut down speculation in July 2021 about Heard’s role.Safran told Deadline at the time, “I don’t think that we’re ever going to react to, honestly, pure fan pressure.
You gotta do what you feel is best for the movie. We felt that if it’s [director] James Wan and Jason Momoa, it should be Amber Heard.
That’s really what it was.”“Listen, one is not unaware of what is going on in the Twitterverse, but that doesn’t mean you have to react to it or take it as gospel or accede to their wishes,” Safran added. “You have to do what you feel is right for the film, and that’s really where we landed on it.”The sequel was originally scheduled for a theatrical release on Dec.
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