Actor Johnny Depp has been making countless headlines over the last few years, thanks to his long legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard. This became especially true when their defamation case went to trial, and the court of public opinion also drew its own conclusion. Fans have made a few petitions in response, including a popular one pleading for the 59-year-old actor to be reinstated as Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise. Although that petition to get Depp back in "Pirates" has seemingly fallen short of its final goal.

The petition to get Johnny Depp back in his signature "Pirates of the Caribbean" role comes from the popular website Change.org. It’s actually quite popular online, and at the time of writing this story has over 880k digital signatures. This number was boosted as a result of the defamation trial. But it failed to reach the 1 million goal, which would have made it one of the top-signed petitions on the entire website. Although it doesn’t seem like Disney is particularly taking this petition into consideration either way.