Mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has a lot on his desk. After exhuming the Bad Boys, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop film series from the cinematic afterlife, he is now setting out to do the same for the pirate adventures of Pirates of the Caribbean.
But will it be easy Pirates of the Caribbean 6 … or is there perhaps another option?
Pirates of the Caribbean 6: This is the current status (according to Jerry Bruckheimer)
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise sailed its last voyage so far with the fifth film Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Salazar’s Revenge in 2017. For the upcoming project – without Johnny Depp, mind you – there are two options: A Pirate reboot of the series, or a female-led spin-off with Barbie actress Margot Robbie and The Bear star Ayo Edebiri as pirates.
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Scene from Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Bruckheimer told Comic Book that a script could land with Disney’s decision-makers in just a few weeks:
We have a script that is currently being written. Hopefully it will be in a month or as finished and as good as I think it will be. Hopefully Disney and [das Studio] gives us the opportunity [einen neuen Fluch der Karibik-Film zu drehen].
There were rumors recently about who would replace Jack Sparrow in the event of a potential reboot. Elvis star Austin Butler is being talked about as the pirate. However, this information still comes from the rumor mill. Butler himself didn’t even know about his good fortune.
Will there perhaps even be several Pirates of the Caribbean stories running in parallel?
But maybe it’s not a question of either/or. In May of this year, Bruckheimer told Entertainment Weekly that there could also be a double Pirates of the Caribbean:
They are two different films. […] We hope, that both of them are made and I think Disney will agree, they want to make the one with Margot real too.
So it’s a great time to be a pirate fan. In the meantime, the genre has been kept alive in the series sector by formats such as Black Sails and Our Flag Means Death. And that’s a good thing, because dead genres don’t tell stories.