Johnny Depp He stated a few days ago that he would not play Jack Sparrow in a ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie even if Disney offered him $300 million to do it. The truth is that the actor and the studio had already reached an agreement for his participation in the sixth film of the saga, but Disney backed out at the last minute.
This is how the deal fell apart.
Jack Whighhamagent of the actor, recently revealed in the trial that confronts Depp with Amber Heard that he had closed a deal with Disney for which the protagonist of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ would have received 22.5 million dollars for his participation in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 6’.
That was before the Washington Post published an article in 2018 in which Heard accused Depp of domestic abuse. According to Whigham, that “made it impossible to get him a studio moviediscovering soon after that Disney had decided go in another direction regarding the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga. At first the idea was a film led by Margot Robbie, which she is yet to see come to fruition.
In fact, even ‘The Minamata Photographer’ was about to come to nothing, but Depp agreed to lower his salary to 3 million dollars for that film to go ahead. Whigham acknowledged that “I was unsuccessful rescuing ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ for Johnny‘, pointing to the article in question as largely responsible for what happened.
Then it is true that he acknowledged that he never saw a contract that included the offer of 22.5 million dollars, but if it had existed, it was most likely already signed and Disney had no choice but to pay it. Everything suggests that they reached that agreement informally and when it came to making it official they did not want to know anything.
By the way, Whigham also revealed the amount that Depp received for ‘Fantastic Animals: Dumbledore’s Secrets’ despite not finally participating in the film: $13.5 million.