THE riveting drama surrounding Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial has been made into a movie, less than a year after the jury delivered the verdict.
The trailer for the Tubi Original biographical film, Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial, was uploaded on YouTube yesterday.
The film is set to focus on “the controversial defamation trial that shook the world”.
It stars Mark Hapka as Depp, Megan Davis as Heard, Melissa Marty as Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez, and Mary Carrig as Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft.
Based on the trailer, the film will include retellings of the trial’s notable moments and dramatisation of the duo’s infamous relationship behind cameras.
The trailer garnered mixed reviews with some criticising the trial being made into a for-profit film, while others commended the actors’ performances.
“The only hot take here is the fact I’d rather re-watch six weeks of free, raw court footage than any money-milking, dramatised college project,” said DevJMD in the YouTube comment section.
“The movie nobody thought they needed and… they’d be right,” commented Syndromeda.
“Who in their right minds thought it was cool to turn this into a show?” commented Peter S.
The six-week trial ended Depp’s favour when the jury ruled that Heard defamed him after she published a piece in the Washington Post about being a sexual assault survivor.
Depp was awarded US$10 million in compensatory damages and an additional US$350,000 in punitive damages. Heard was awarded US$2 million, after the juror found that she was also defamed. – The Vibes, September 30, 2022
