Johnny Depp may consider a return as Jack Sparrow in a sixth film “Pirates of the Caribbean”, at least according to Franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer. In a new interview with Entertainment weeklyBruckheimer confirmed that he spoke to Depp about a new “Pirates” film. The producer is optimistic that Jack Sparrow could be back.
“If he likes the way the part is written, he would do it,” said Bruckheimer to Ew. “It's just about what is on the side, as we all know … We still work on a script. We want to do it. We just have to get the right script. We haven't quite got there yet, but we are close.”
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From 2003 to 2017, Depp headed five “Pirates” films, which achieved more than 650 million US dollars at the global box office. 2006s “Dead Man's Chest” and “On Stranger Tides” from 2011 exceeded the $ 1 billion mark. His future with the series supported by Disney was a question mark according to his legal problems and his defamation process against Amber Heard 2022. Since Depp is now increasing a Hollywood comeback with the Lionsgate Action thriller “Day Trinker”, only further speculation is speculating about whether Disney would welcome him (and vice versa). With Depp Front and Center, the “Pirates” films together cost 4.5 billion US dollars.
The way to a new “Pirates” film was long. diversity Reports in the summer of 2020 that Disney was in two “pirates” films in an early development: a restart of Margot Robbie and a sixth film in the original franchise written by Craig Mazin and Ted Elliott, the latter of which wrote down the first four “pirates” films. Robbie said in the end Vanity fair In November 2022, Disney was not interested in her film “Rather by women”, although Bruckheimer had downplayed the claim by talking about later EW There is still room for both “pirates” films to exist, and “I think Disney agrees that they also want to make the Margot one.”
As for the other “Pirates” film, Bruckheimer told EW Last summer, screenwriter Jeff Nathanson had gone the project on board. Nathanson wrote the script for the last “Pirates” film, 2017 “Dead Men Tell No Tales”.
“He cracked it,” said Bruckheimer at the time of Nathanson's script. “He has an amazing act. We only have to get the first and second and then there. But he wrote a great, great third act.”
Whether Nathanson's script is a new design of Mazins or a completely original script. Mazin The Los Angeles Times told Last year that his script for “Pirates 6” was so strange that he was surprised that Disney registered it and added: “We recorded it and thought there was no way that you don't buy it, it is too strange. And you did it! And then we wrote a fantastic script, and the strike happened and everyone was waiting around.”
Bruckheimer Also said last summer That he would be open to bring Depp back for the Nathanson-found film and explain: “It is a restart, but when it was up to me. [Johnny] would be in it. I love him. He is a good friend. He is an amazing artist and he is a unique look. He created Captain Jack. That was not on the side, it was that he did a little more Madere Le Pew and Keith Richards. That was his interpretation of Jack Sparrow. “
Depps Last Hollywood -Studio -Film was “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” in 2018. He had just finished his first day with the filming of the continuation “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” when Warner Bros. asked him to leave the sun 2020 one day after the loss of his defamation process. The actor sued the British publication because he called him a “wife”, but the court decided that this characterization of Depp was “essentially true”. Depp was finally re -recorded with Mads Mikkelsen in the sequel.
A second court proceedings on Depp took place in the United States in 2022 after Depp sued the ex-wife Amber for defamation for an op-ET, in which she wrote in the Washington Post, in which she described herself as “a figure that represents domestic abuse”. The result of this process was more likely to be Depps than a jury ultimately ruled This belongs that Depp was completed in the surgical ED (although the jury also decided that Depp was listing against her indictment in the course of the setbacks).
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