You would hardly have known that this week saw the death of DC’s extended universe, AKA the Snyderverse. A new report in Variety focuses in on the revelation, detailed in freshly released documents from last year’s Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, that the latter felt she was being pushed out of her role as Mera in the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom by none other than Jason Momoa, the king of Atlantis himself. The article goes on to detail how Heard was eventually allowed to retain the role after her then-boyfriend Elon Musk had one of his legal team send a “scorched-earth letter to Warner Bros threatening to burn the house down” if she was fired.
This, of course, is all the salacious stuff, gleaned from notes taken from Heard’s therapist, Dr Dawn Hughes, which were never meant for public consumption and have only seen the light of day because fans of Depp paid for the court to release them. And it has naturally been picked up across the media. But buried in a much later paragraph is confirmation that the longest goodbye in comic book movie history has finally reached its finale. Reports Variety: “None of the stars cast by Zack Snyder for 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and 2017’s Justice League – including Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller and Momoa — will reprise their roles in the new DC universe in character.”
