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The new ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ will be a full series reboot without Johnny Depp
The producer behind the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise has stated that a reboot so they don’t have to depend on certain stars’ schedules to clear.
‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ will eventually return to theaters, but as a completely different version than what we’ve known so far. Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of films such as ‘Top Gun’ and the aforementioned ‘Pirates’ series, revealed to comicbook.com that the next chapter of the franchise will be a reboot that will dispense with the figure of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.
“It’s hard to tell. You don’t know, you really don’t know,” Bruckheimer begins when asked about the future of the two brands. “You don’t know how they come together. You just don’t know. Because with Top Gun you have an actor who is iconic and brilliant. And how many movies he does before he does Top Gun, I can’t tell you. But we’re gonna reboot Pirates, so that is easier to put together because you don’t have to wait for certain actors.”
What do we know about the sixth installment of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’?
Few details have appeared on the horizon for the next ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie. We only heard the first news back in 2023, when Craig Mazin, producer of ‘The Last of Us’, shared that he had written a script for the reboot of the license that was “too weird”.. After presenting it to Disney, the production company was delighted with the result, but the strike that the industry suffered paralyzed the project.
“We pitched it and thought there’s no way they’re buying it, it’s too weird,” he explained in conversation with the LA Times. “And they did! And then he wrote a fantastic script and the strike happened and everyone’s waiting around.” The reboot of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ will be the sixth installment of the series, which began in 2003 with the mythical ‘The Curse of the Black Pearl’. Two films would follow almost immediately, ‘Dead Man’s Chest’ (2006) and ‘At World’s End’ (2007). From then on, the saga would enter a hiatus that resumed in 2011 with ‘On Stranger Tides’, to finally reach a fifth installment in 2017 with Javier Bardem as the antagonist of ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’.