The multi-billion dollar Pirates of the Caribbean franchise hasn’t released a new movie since the fifth entry for Salazar’s Revenge (aka Dead Men Tell No Tales) in 2017. The future of the series has been unclear since Disney dropped Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow follows his ex-wife Amber Heard’s allegations of domestic violence, which the star vehemently denies.
During his defamation lawsuit against Heard this year, Depp made it clear that he wouldn’t return to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise even if he offered “$300 million and a million alpacas.”
However, after his victory, there is still hope of persuading the 59-year-old to make a comeback. In May, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was asked if Depp could return for Pirates 6 and told The Sunday Times, “Not at this point. The future is not yet decided.”
As it stands, there are two scripts in the works, one being the sixth installment and the other being Margot Robbie’s one-man show. And now there is more news.
Bruckheimer was recently asked to update Pirates 6 by Comic Book, and the producer said, “I’m really excited, it’s going to be great. We’re just working on the script. One of the original writers, Ted Elliott, helps write it. He has great leadership in the characters.”
That’s great news for fans of Depp’s original outing in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as it means they’ll be looking forward to getting inspired by where it all began.
Of course, we still don’t know if the Captain Jack Sparrow star will appear in the movie, but there is hope.
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Depp also said, “Captain Jack Sparrow was a character that I created from the ground up and it was something I put on a lot of course. [myself] In character and also after I worked on these movies with these guys and added a lot of myself, a lot of rewriting the dialogue, the scenes, the jokes. I didn’t quite understand how, after such a long and certainly quite successful relationship with Disney, I suddenly became guilty until proven innocent.”
So even if he’s not in Pirates of the Caribbean 6, we wouldn’t be surprised if, over time after Disney dropped him, he’d be back down the line.
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