Last Friday we learned the shocking news that Warner Bros. had requested that Johnny Depp vacate his role as Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. Depp, who revealed the news himself via Instagram, explained that he had respectfully moved aside. WB has since released a statement confirming that Grindelwald will be recast for Fantastic Beasts 3.
The implications of this are pretty huge, with Depp’s fans getting furious on social media for what they believe is an unfair dismissal after the controversial ruling in his libel court case last week. Let’s stick with the fictional ramifications of this decision for the moment, though, and examine how the prequel threequel may address the fact that Grindelwald has got himself a new face when we next see him.
First of all, it’s possible they won’t address it. Famously, Michael Gambon took over the role of Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban following the death of original actor Richard Harris. The change in actor was never addressed. Gambon’s version even had a very different characterization and fashion sense from Harris, but the fact that he still had long white hair and a beard was enough to convince audiences he was the same guy.
So they could pull the same trick with Grindelwald. Get another actor in, give them the short, spikey bleached hair and a heterochromatic contact lens and pretend nothing’s happened. However, the way the story is going in the FB movies means that they could actually explain the loss of Depp in a way that won’t require audiences to suspend their disbelief. Because the thing is that Grindelwald has already changed his appearance in the film film.
2016’s Where to Find Them features Colin Farrell as Percival Graves, who turned out to be Grindelwald in disguise in a final twist. Grindelwald was operating as Graves to infiltrate the MACUSA. Now he’s declared war on the Wizarding World in Crimes of Grindelwald, it might be time for him to transform himself once again in order to avoid detection. Probably not back into Graves, despite fans wanting Farrell back, but you never know.
Fantastic Beasts 3 is now coming in summer 2022.
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