Actor Johnny Depp said on Friday he is resigning from the Fantastic Beasts movie franchise after losing a libel case in Britain against a tabloid that called him a “wife beater.”
Depp, writing on Instagram, said that AT&T Inc’s Warner Bros movie studio had asked him to leave his role as villain Gellert Grindelwald. “I have respected and agreed to that request,” he said.
Warner Bros said in a statement that Johnny Depp will depart the Fantastic Beasts franchise, and that the role of Grindelwald would be recast.
The third film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise…