For years, any Outposter has been able to confidently state that without Johnny Depp, there is no Pirates Of The Caribbean.
All this talk of reboots, remakes, and Margot-Robbie led female-centric versions was simply for the birds. The man was the centre of the whole gig.
So it is not surprising that, as Depp stages a Hollywood comeback after Bed-poogate and messing at the wrong end of the hot/crazy scale, he is circling a return as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Speaking with EW about a sixth Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed he was speaking to Depp.
“If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it. It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know… We are still working on a screenplay. We want to make it. We just got to get the right screenplay. We haven’t quite gotten there yet, but we’re close.”
All five Pirates movies made decent money, with two passing $1 billion, so a sequel remains a no-brainier in these creatively stifled times.
Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson was reworking a script from Craig Marin (Chernobyl) and the script apparently has producers excited.
