Disney’s $ 301 million offer: Johnny Depp back in “Pirates of the Caribbean”?

Disney reportedly offered Johnny Depp a whopping $301 million to once again don Jack Sparrow’s costume in the movie franchise Pirates of the Caribbean.

The news was reported by Australian site Poptopic. In addition to another film, the offer would affect a series on the universe of Jack Sparrow.

“The deal would see Johnny Depp return as Jack Sparrow,” we learn in an article from the New York Post.

Johnny Depp, 59, has already starred in five films in the franchise Pirates of the Caribbean.

We remember that the actor, who has just emerged victorious from a highly publicized lawsuit against his ex Amber Heard, was unceremoniously ejected from the franchise in 2018 by Disney, at the dawn of the sixth installment, thus losing his salary. of US$22.5 million. He was at the time targeted by allegations of abuse by Amber Heard. The latter had claimed to have been the victim of domestic violence on the part of Johnny Depp in an opinion piece she wrote that year.

1er Last June, a judge sentenced Amber Heard to pay her former lover $10.35 million in a defamation lawsuit.