It’s not clear if this March 2020 libel trial or the upcoming August 2020 defamation trial will affect Johnny Depp’s schedule for Fantastic Beasts 3, which is expected to start filming soon.
The delay was reportedly due to the sheer size and ambition of the third movie — and also due to script re-writing, with J.K. Rowling getting a co-screenwriter for the first time in the Fantastic Beasts series.
That movie was delayed from its initial plan to start filming last summer; it was going to shoot in late fall 2019 but was moved to this spring for its current November 12, 2021 release date.