Amber Heard Battles Demons in Trailer for Comeback Film ‘In the Fire’
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After a highly publicized defamation trial loss to ex-husband Johnny Depp, Amber Heard is set to make her Hollywood comeback, battling a demonic possession in the first trailer for In the Fire, which dropped Wednesday.
The teaser for director Conor Allyn’s 1890s-set paranormal thriller sees Heard play Grace Burnham, a psychiatrist on a remote plantation in Colombia caring for a disturbed boy with inexplicable abilities. As she begins treatment, Burnham ignites a war between science and religion, with the local priest claiming the boy is possessed by the devil and the cause of the village’s woes.
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“Those people are scared. And they need something to blame for that fear. And it’s you,” Burnham tells the young boy, played by Lorenzo McGovern Zaini, at one point in the trailer.
Heard completed production on In the Fire in March 2022. A few months later, in June, a Virginia jury awarded Johnny Depp $15 million in his suit against Heard, ruling that he had been defamed when his former wife wrote a December 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post in which Heard called herself a domestic abuse survivor.
Depp was also mostly vindicated on allegations that he defamed Heard by proxy when his lawyer called her accusations a hoax. Heard is looking to In the Fire to mark her return to Hollywood and the big screen after her legal loss.
“The film is a meditation on the almost supernatural powers of love told through a strong-willed and independent woman at the turn of the 20th century. I feel honored to be part of this labor of love and to be the lead in Conor Allyn’s vision. I feel lucky to be surrounded by such an amazing cast. They’re as dedicated and magical as the characters they play,” Heard said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
Allyn directed In the Fire from a script he co-wrote with Pascal Borno and Silvio Muraglia. Saban Films plans an Oct. 13 release in theaters and on digital and on-demand platforms.
Heard also has a role in the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom from director James Wan, with Jason Momoa returning as the titular hero. With a Dec. 20 release, the long-awaited tentpole is a sequel to 2018’s Aquaman, which stands as the highest-grossing DC movie of all time, with $1.148 billion at the box office.
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