In a recent interview with Brandon Davis (@BrandonDavisBD) for comicbook.com, Jerry Bruckheimer shared some thoughts on the sixth film of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
When asked what film will come first, the next Top Gun or the next installment of Pirates of the Caribbean. "It's hard to tell. You don't know, you really don't know," Bruckheimer began. "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."
That last last Pirates of the Caribbean movie was released in theaters nearly seven years ago, and Disney still hasn't figured out how they would like to move forward with the franchise. There have reportedly been a lot of ideas about the future of the franchise, including a film with Margot Robbie in the lead role that would include getting Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow back into the mix.
Diving into some of the speculation a little further, the sixth movie was originally going to serve as a continuation of the fifth installment, Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), until franchise star Johnny Depp was removed from the project due to his legal troubles with ex-wife Amber Heard.
In 2020, the aforementioned female-led Pirates spin-off movie was announced with Margot Robbie attached to star. However, the actor revealed two years later that the project was dead, stating that, while a “really cool” idea, Disney didn’t “want to do it.”
The last official update on Pirates of the Caribbean 6 came in 2023 when he Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin revealed to The LA Times that Disney had bought his and Ted Elliot’s “fantastic” script, but that the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes had halted any forward movement on the movie. While Mazin is a new addition to the franchise, Elliot co-wrote the first four Pirates of the Caribbean films with his writing partner Terry Rossio.
I have reservations about the proposed reboot, well around any reboot. I'm afraid the franchise has already died a slow death and we should just let this dying cat die. Rebooting the same storyline multiple over and over ruins the fun of the original movie. What do you think? Are you looking forward to another reboot, should they continue with the current storyline, or should they just let the fifth movie be its last?