Jack Whigham

“we finished the deal, and we closed the deal at 22 1/2 million for that film is my memory.”

“with respect to Johnny, it was catastrophic because it was coming from, you know, a first-person account. It was not from a journalist. It was not from someone observing. It was from someone saying, "This happened to me."”

“The financing became shaky. The budget had to come down. Johnny's fee came down in order to save the movie.”

“After the op-ed, it was impossible to get him a studio film, which is what we normally would have been focused on in that time period.”

“It would be fair to say that I have not seen a document on Pirates.”

“I have not seen 22.5 million written on a page; you're correct about that.”

“My testimony is that it reads like a victim statement from someone involved and the recipient, and it became a, yes, a bit of a death knell, catastrophic thing for Mr. Depp in the Hollywood community.”

“Since July 2020, he has not done a film.”

“Often on a franchise movie, when you're dealing with big stars and you're talking about future optional pictures, you engage at the high level, meaning the president or the top of the studio, to get an understanding of what that deal is going to be.”

“it was trending badly in the late fall on behalf of Disney, but I was - but Jerry Bruckheimer and I were lobbying to make it happen. And so we had hoped, and it became clear to me in early 2019 that it was over.”