• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Johnny Depp got pulled from the Pirates series didn’t he

    Didn’t they stop making them before everything started coming out about him? And getting rid of people like James Gunn and John Lassiter work more for Disney because they work behind the scenes. They are more replaceable. But like I said, they didn’t seem to mind replacing Terrence Howard. And Don Cheadle is a better actor anyway, so it worked out pretty well.

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      11 months ago

      Terrance Howard also priced himself out. That was as much his decision as Disney’s. I don’t know. I guess we’ll find out soon. I like JM as an actor but these allegations can blow back on companies seen as taking the wrong side, and here he was found guilty. There are some really hard conversations going on behind the scenes, for sure.

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        11 months ago

        Allegedly Disney never made it clear that they reduced his role. So he was negotiating based on old info. No idea how accurate that is though.

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      11 months ago

      Terrence Howard wasn’t the focus of an entire phase the way Majors is/was supposed to be. A sidekick is a lot easier to replace than a big-bad who’s already been in several franchise pieces.