Do We Need to Convey Johnny Depp Again to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, Truly?

Again in 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl first hit theaters, it was a nice shock. A film primarily based on a Disney trip—in a time when pirate films weren’t exactly riding high—it was extremely entertaining, made a zillion {dollars}, and earned Johnny Depp his first Oscar nomination. 4 sequels of various high quality adopted, however regardless of many rumblings since Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017, Pirates has but to relaunch. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is now saying there could be life left within the franchise with the now-controversial Depp again aboard—however is that one thing we must always actually be encouraging?

Chatting with Entertainment Weekly, Bruckheimer stated Depp is open to a Captain Jack Sparrow return. That’s important since Disney jettisoned the star in 2018 amid his legal drama with former spouse Amber Heard; as EW notes, Depp stated in court docket in 2022 that he wouldn’t be reprising the function as a result of “there was a deep and distinct sense of feeling betrayed by the folks that I’ve labored exhausting for.”

Nonetheless, now there’s seemingly been a shift. “If he likes the way in which the half’s written, I believe he would do it,” Bruckheimer informed EW. “It’s all about what’s on the web page, as everyone knows.”

Bruckheimer has beforehand described a possible sixth Pirates film as a reboot. In 2022, amid discussions of Margot Robbie’s on-again, off-again tackle the franchise—which he nonetheless had hopes for at the moment—he sounded much less optimistic about Depp making any form of Pirates return sometime. Nonetheless, he did say, “The long run has but to be determined.”

That future is seemingly right here now, and Bruckheimer, who’s clearly conscious that any time he talks about Pirates he makes headlines, is floating that risk anew. However even when somebody writes the perfect Pirates reboot script ever, topping even the seaworthy hijinks of The Curse of the Black Pearl, do we actually want Depp and his character to be shoehorned into it? Captain Jack Sparrow had already overstayed his welcome even earlier than Depp’s private troubles turned headline fodder. Maybe if there’s no probability of getting a Pirates film with out him, we must always contemplate letting the concept sink to the underside of the ocean ceaselessly.

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