12 h, aug 6, 2021 y - DAILY MAIL The toxic movie Hollywood is too scared to show: fallout from Johnny Depp downfall has seen it quietly 'buried'

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This is the film Hollywood is simply too scared to show. That is the message in an impassioned letter from film director Andrew Levitas to MGM last week in which he accused the movie giant of ‘callously trampling’ on the lives, legacy and bravery of innocent people.

The innocents in question are the inhabitants of a fishing town in Japan whose lives have been devastated by a toxic industrial pollution scandal, and whose shocking true story the film exposes. But the star at its centre is Johnny Depp, no stranger himself to a different type of toxic abuse scandal.

According to Levitas, an artist and director who is married to Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, MGM has ‘buried’ his latest film, Minamata, because it is terrified of being associated with a movie in which the shamed actor not only plays the leading role but is also a producer.

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