Amber Heard says she is happy to have moved on with her life
LOS ANGELES — Actress Amber Heard has a movie coming out this weekend that will be new to theatres and mass audiences, but for her it’s actually quite old.
“London Fields,” an adaptation of a 1989 Martin Amis mystery, has been in some stage of development for almost 20 years. Heard didn’t get involved until 2013, with music video director Matthew Cullen at the helm, but the roadblocks and behind the scenes drama had only just begun.
The film was abruptly pulled from the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 (after some critics had already seen it) when Cullen sued the producers over a dispute about payment and the final cut, which set off a string of countersuits. Producers even sued Heard for $10 million, which she countered with a suit that claimed the production had violated her nudity agreement by using a body double.
It would take until September, five years after cameras started rolling, for the producers to settle, and now the film is finally preparing to debut this weekend in 600 theatres.