True-crime films are all the rage nowadays. Thanks to streamers like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and the rest, film and TV libraries are filled to the brim with docuseries and narrative projects about real-life criminal activity. However, most of the time, these programs follow horrific crimes told through a respectful lens that minimizes exploitation as much as possible. But every once in a while, a project like “Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial” comes along and you realize that studios will do just about anything to make a quick buck. Even if it feels incredibly gross.
As seen in the trailer for “Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial,” the new Tubi Original film follows the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation trial from just a few months ago. But this isn’t a docuseries. Instead, this is a dramatization of those events with actors taking on the roles. Honestly, if you showed someone this trailer and they thought it was a terrible ‘SNL’ skit, they wouldn’t be out of bounds in thinking that. It looks thrown together in a short amount of time and made solely for the purpose of capitalizing on a trial that itself was inherently invasive and exploitative.
If people have problems with how “Pam & Tommy” told Pam Anderson’s story without the consent of the subject, they have to lose their mind over ‘Hot Take.’ The title itself is a red flag, as it shows that the film is going to be divisive and debated.
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‘Hot Take’ stars Mark Hapka as Johnny Depp, Megan Davis as Amber Heard, Melissa Marty as Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez, and Mary Carrig as Heard’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft. The film is written by Guy Nicolucci and directed by Sara Lohman.
If you want to watch an exploitative recreation of a defamation trial that turned into complete tabloid fodder, then “Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial” arrives on Tubi on September 30.
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