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A brand new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is lengthy overdue. The beloved movie franchise, based mostly on Walt Disney’s theme park attraction of the identical title, launched with 2003’s The Curse of the Black Pearl starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Kiera Knightley. The Oscar-nominated film was adopted by 4 extra movies: 2006’s Lifeless Man’s Chest, 2007’s At World’s Finish, 2011’s On Stranger Tides, and 2017’s Lifeless Males Inform No Tales. In whole, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has grossed over $4.5 billion worldwide on the field workplace and is the 14th highest-grossing movie sequence ever.
A sixth movie has been in improvement since 2017, however plans have been stalled due partly to Johnny’s defamation trial in opposition to his ex-wife, Amber Heard. A female-led spinoff film with Margot Robbie because the lead star was within the works at Disney, however the actress revealed that the challenge was canceled. So, we’ve rounded up every thing it’s good to know in regards to the reboot movie and Johnny’s future within the franchise beneath.
‘Pirates’ Reboot Forged
The reboot movie was first introduced in June 2020. Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced all of the Pirates films thus far, confirmed in an interview with The Sunday Instances in Might 2022 that they have been nonetheless engaged on the screenplay for the reboot. Jerry by no means shared the official title or plot particulars, however he did verify that they have been “speaking” to Margot in regards to the plans.
Throughout a March 2024 interview with Comicbook.com, Jerry confirmed that the reboot remains to be taking place however with a brand new solid. When requested when audiences can see it, he replied, “It’s laborious to inform. You don’t know.”
“With Prime Gun, you will have an actor who’s iconic and sensible. And what number of films he does earlier than he does Prime Gun, I can’t let you know,” Jerry stated about Tom Cruise. “However we’re gonna reboot Pirates, so that’s simpler to place collectively since you don’t have to attend for sure actors.”
In June 2025, Orlando teased that some authentic solid members from the movies would possibly return to the sixth movie, he informed Recreation Rant.
Johnny Depp’s Exit
Johnny’s future within the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was threatened when his ex-wife, Amber Heard, accused him of home abuse in an op-ed printed by the Washington Submit in December 2018. On the time, Johnny was set to star within the sixth movie with Joachim Ronning directing, and Ted Elliott and Craig Mazin as screenwriters. However Johnny wasn’t supplied many roles, he was pressured to resign from the Incredible Beasts franchise at Warner Bros behest, and finally, Disney minimize ties with him on the movie. Through the defamation trial, which started April 11, Johnny’s agent Jack Whigham claimed that the actor was set to earn over $22 million for Pirates of the Caribbean 6 till Disney abruptly went “in a special course” after Amber’s article was printed.
Johnny confirmed throughout his testimony that he’d by no means return to the movie franchise regardless of how a lot he’d receives a commission. He did, nevertheless, share that he initially needed to do Pirates of the Caribbean 6 to present his character Captain Jack Sparrow a “correct goodbye.” Regardless that Johnny was let go from the movies, Disney nonetheless featured Jack Sparrow at their theme parks. Johnny stated in courtroom that Disney “didn’t need there to be one thing trailing behind [Depp] that they’d discover.” Johnny gained the defamation trial on June 1.
Within the Sunday Instances interview, Jerry was requested about Johnny’s potential return to the Pirates franchise. “Not at this level. The long run is but to be determined,” he stated. Followers reacted poorly to that and threatened to boycott the franchise with out Johnny. “And I verify that nobody goes to observe a Pirates Of The Caribbean film with out Johnny Depp,” one fan tweeted. One other said, “Nobody will ever change johnny depp as captain jack sparrow, he MADE pirates of the caribbean.”
Margot Robbie Was Alleged to Be the New Lead
Margot’s attachment to the Pirates of the Caribbean reboot movie was introduced in June 2020 by way of The Hollywood Reporter. The report stated that the Pirates film wouldn’t be a derivative of the common franchise, “however fairly an entirely authentic story with new characters.” Jerry confirmed in The Sunday Instances interview that Margot remains to be hooked up to the challenge. “We’re speaking to Margot Robbie. We’re growing two Pirates scripts — one along with her, one with out,” he stated. Margot by no means publicly addressed her involvement within the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise till November 2022, when she revealed that the spinoff is now not taking place.
“We had an concept and we have been growing it for some time, ages in the past, to have extra of a female-led — not completely female-led, however only a totally different type of story — which we thought would’ve been actually cool,” she informed Self-importance Honest. “However I suppose they don’t need to do it.”
