Johnny Depp/Amber Heard Defamation Trial to Get Movie Adaptation at Tubi
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard‘s highly publicized trial is getting the TV-movie treatment.
The actors’ contentious defamation case, which made many a headline this spring, will be adapted into the original movie Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial at Fox Entertainment’s free streaming service Tubi, TVLine has learned.
Dropping on the platform Friday, Sept. 30, Hot Take will chronicle Depp and Heard’s tumultuous relationship, both inside and outside the courtroom. Mark Hapka (who played Days of Our Lives‘ Nathan Horton from 2009 to 2011) and Megan Davis (who has appeared in episodes of American Horror Story and 2 Broke Girls) will respectively play Depp and Heard. Guy Nicolucci (Late Night With Conan O’Brien) will write the script, while Sara Lohman (Lifetime’s Secrets in the Woods) will direct.
“Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial has ‘Hot Take’ in the title for a reason,” said Adam Lewinson, Tubi’s chief content officer. “With our partners at MarVista, this Tubi Original was fast-tracked into production to capture a timely take on a story that became part of the cultural zeitgeist, painting a unique picture of what millions watched play out in the headlines over the summer.”
Depp and Heard’s defamation trial took place from April through June of this year, stemming from a lawsuit Depp brought against his ex-wife over three specific statements made in an op-ed she’d written for The Washington Post. Heard later filed counterclaims of defamation related to three statements made about her by Depp’s lawyer and published by the British tabloid Daily Mail.
When the verdict came down on June 1, the jury found that Heard had defamed Depp in all three of the highlighted statements from her op-ed, while only one of the three statements made about Heard by Depp’s lawyer was found to be defamatory. Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages; Heard received $2 million.
Will you be watching Hot Take when it premieres? Tell us below.
Why? Just Why?
Who didn’t see this coming?
At this point they can get Amber Heard to play herself if she still needs the money. OR hear me out on this. She can play Johnny Depp.
If anyone was going to do it, I would’ve guessed Lifetime for obvious reasons. I didnt know tubi had their own stuff.
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Both came off looking worse off than they did before. Surprised this trainwreck wasn’t optioned by Ryan Murphy.
I came here to see if he was the one who conceptualized it . Haha.
…my 8yr old twins begged to watch Aquaman…hubby agreed to watch with them… only reason they wanted to watch was to see the lady who poops in bed…🤦🏾♀️
This movie is not necessary… who’s it for seriously. I dont like AH but hasn’t she been through enough.
If your 8 year olds know anything about either one of these people or about the trial, you and your husband are truly garbage parents… lying about your 8 year olds knowing anything about this also makes you pure garbage.
I’m sorry your parents were garbage & didn’t love you enough. First of all, any reasonable person with common sense knows no one CANNOT protect kids from all the rubbish and rubbish people (such as yourself) in the world. I’m guessing you had no peers at school or in life that’s why you don’t comprehend the concept of how kids learn & absorb all sorts of useless junk from their peers. stay pressed!
**CAN
8 year olds aren’t looking up videos of an actor who was in his prime 30 years ago, you clown LMAO. Let’s make you some easy money: film and post a video of yourself interviewing a bunch of kids that go to school with your kids asking them who JD is. If more than one of them know who he is (without you naming any of his characters), I’ll send you $1000 USD… The only way they would know about any of this is if you and your garbage husband or friends were discussing it in front of them. Put your money where your mouth is, kiddo :)
Be sure to blur out any school name and child’s face. And by a bunch, I mean 10 kids. This should be the easiest 1k you ever make. Show me the world how you owned this lib!
Seriously! That was just uncalled for. Kids see things. It was everywhere for weeks. That doesn’t make someone a garbage parent.
Everywhere that 8 year olds watch? My gods yall are insane lmao
Why in the hell would anyone want to see this…again?!?!
hot take? more like a cash grab. they are hoping to capitalise on a tiktok trends and social media craze but by sept 30 nobody will want to watch it
Watching the trial was enough. Can’t believe anyone would want to watch a fictionalized re-enactment of this trial and their relationship once again. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Can’t believe anyone would want to watch a fictionaized re-enactment of this trial and their relationship.
Yes!! I will be watching Hot Take most likely several times. Looking so. forward to its release on TUBI. I already have. the TUBI APP.
Well that didn’t take long. I expect lot of documetaries, movies or tv shows about this mess in coming years
Why would anyone want to watch a dramatization? The real thing is still on youtube and the reality is much more interesting than another version of it.
Please no, we have seen way too much of the two of them already
No matter how bad the media tries to make Depp look, Heard is there to look worse through things she is actually doing in her life, instead of lying about Depp.
Brian Cox is as unknown as AH for their own body of works and the only time he gets attention is when he talks about JD!
Oh here we go … even though massive amounts of abuse was from both ends and was proven. Here comes a crazed Depp fan to try and trash the woman – typical
Trash talking an abuse victim AND claiming Brian Cox is an unknown… wow this comment is deluded.
Hasn’t Depp been through enough? She used him for clout and then disposed of him like trash and thought she would get away with her lies and blackmail him in the divorce. She is despicable. She needs to be in jail for what she has done. Let him move on!!!
Depp is an abuse and has been since the 80s. Get your facts straight.
My first thought was “it can’t be any worse than that pam and tommy garbage on Hulu”…
Then I saw it was releasing on Tubi. I stand corrected, it can be much worse.
Enough. No, really. Just move on.
This is absolutely f***ed beyond reasoning but considering that the public greedily consumed this trial about domestic violence like it was a sports match, the depravity isn’t shocking, just disappointing beyond measure. Anyone who watches this is a POS.
I Think Amber Heard Is on the same level as Meghan Markle, Virginia Thomas, Melania Trump, Hilaria Baldwin, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Elaine Chao, Lara Trump, Lotta Volkova, Erika Jayne, Nikki Haley, Patrizia Reggiani, Ivanka Trump, Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Sorokin, Rebekah Neumann, Tulsi Gabbard, Ghislaine Maxwell, Carolyn Bryant, Eva Braun, Oksana Grigorieva, Kari Lake,