Johnny Depp is King Louis XV in new promo images for actor's comeback film - Daily Mail

Johnny Depp appears as King Louis XV successful caller promo images for his highly-anticipated film, Jeanne du Barry, which comes aft his defamation proceedings against ex-wife Amber Heard. 

In the promotional images released Tuesday, Depp looked regal arsenic the French monarch beside co-star/director Maiwenn Le Besco, who plays King Louis' mistress, Jeanne du Barry.

Instead of his signature brunette locks, Depp sports metallic hairsbreadth and King Louis' celebrated tricorn hats and elaborate royal garb.

Louis XV reigned implicit France from 1715 to his decease successful 1774. He was joined to Queen of France, Marie Leczinska but had a fig of semipermanent affairs.

Jeanne was his last person earlier helium died.

The play portion was changeable implicit the summertime and volition beryllium released this year. A root told PEOPLE that Jeanne du Barry could premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival successful May.

Along with being his vocation comeback, this besides marks Depp's archetypal movie successful French.

Director Le Besco has had occurrence before, directing critically acclaimed films specified arsenic 'Polisse' and 'Mon Roi.'

The movie volition besides star: Pierre Richard, Benjamin Lavernhe, Noémie Lvovsky, Melvil Poupaud, Pascal Greggory, and India Hair.

While the fund for the movie remains unclear, Depp reportedly has an up-front starting interest of $20 cardinal for immoderate role. Depp's engagement with Jeanne du Barry was archetypal teased successful July and is his archetypal movie successful 3 years.

In 2016, Heard, 36, famously accused the actor, 59, of home violence, which led to Depp being blacklisted by overmuch of Hollywood resulting successful nonaccomplishment of movie roles.

A assemblage determined that Heard's claims, which were published successful a 2018 Washington Post op-ed, against Depp were defamatory and she was ordered to wage the actor $15 cardinal successful damages.

Depp was ordered to wage Heard $2million by the aforesaid courtroom aft Heard countersued for defamation. 

Heard filed an entreaty successful aboriginal December, but the the erstwhile mates recently came to an statement that Heard would wage $1million successful bid to settee the lawsuit alternatively of heading into a 3rd trial. 

Lawyers for Depp, Benjamin Chew and Camille Vasquez, said the histrion is gladsome the 'painful chapter' is implicit and confirmed helium would donate the wealth to charity. 

In an Instagram statement, Heard confirmed the colony but refused to judge guilt and declared her beingness had been 'destroyed' by the jury's decision.

In 2020, a British tribunal ruled that 12 of 14 unit incidents claimed by Heard were 'substantially true,' and Depp was subsequently forced to resign from the 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise astatine the petition of Warner Bros. 

But, aft his 2022 defamation suit against Heard, the prima has regained Hollywood's attention.

Depp is reportedly successful talks to prima successful different 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie and reprise his relation arsenic Captain Jack Sparrow aft a $301 cardinal connection from Disney. 

According to reports, Depp allegedly joked helium wouldn't instrumentality to the 'Pirates' franchise adjacent if helium was offered $300 million, which led Disney to connection him $1 cardinal much than that. 

In December, shaper Jerry Bruckheimer expressed that helium would 'love' to person Johnny Depp instrumentality to franchise.

His past film, 'Minimata,' astir warfare lensman W. Eugene Smith, was released successful 2020. 

The movie flopped, grossing a meager $1.7 cardinal worldwide with a fund successful the scope of $11-13 million. Depp was paid $3 cardinal for his relation aft 'the financing became shaky,' according to his agent. 

The announcement comes arsenic Netflix's subscriber basal and worth person plummeted this year. 

Netflix precocious agreed with French cinema guilds to put astir $40 cardinal into French films successful an effort to recoup involvement successful its productions. 

Depp has a 23-year-old girl with French vocalist Vanessa Paradis. Lily-Rose Depp, who is besides an actor, was calved successful the upscale Paris suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Lily-Rose has besides graced the Netflix homepage. The young actress starred other Timothee Chalamet successful the 2019 Netflix movie The King.

The streaming elephantine admitted it expects to suffer millions of subscribers this year, and its banal worth has dropped implicit 70% since the opening of the year. 

In January, Netflix banal was worthy implicit $600 a share, but that terms has fallen substantially, and shares were being traded astatine astir $180 successful June. 

The nonaccomplishment of worth and gross has forced Netflix to chopped costs, starring to their determination to occurrence hundreds of staffers and employees.

Many judge an evident solution to immoderate of Netflix's caller issues would beryllium an adoption of an advertizing exemplary to summation revenue, but co-CEO Ted Sarandos has dismissed the idea.

'For us, it was each astir simplicity of 1 product, 1 terms point,' helium said, adding: 'I deliberation it tin present withstand immoderate complexity,' Sarandos told the New York Times in May.

'We marque decisions based connected the champion accusation we person astatine the time. They are not ever going to beryllium right, but however you assistance navigate the outcomes, and the urgency you bring to it, is what gets folks done the storm. And the storms volition come.'