Johnny Depp is set to make his Hollywood comeback, landing his first major casting since his legal battles with former wife Amber Heard.
The actor was involved in a high-profile trial against Heard, ultimately winning a defamation case against her in 2022. The jury also found that Depp had defamed Heard through his attorney. In addition, he lost a libel case against The Sun in the UK in 2020.
In the period since the court cases, Depp has appeared in the independent French period drama Jeanne Du Barry, and has directed the biopic Modi: Three Days On The Wing Of Madness, about the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
And now, The Hollywood Reporter report that Depp is being lined up for his first major Hollywood production in several years, in the thriller Day Drinker. The film will see him star as a mysterious day drinker that meets Penélope Cruz’s cruise ship bartender, only for the two to find themselves embroiled in a criminal underworld.
