Pirates 6 Update: Jerry Bruckheimer Unsure of Johnny Depp's Involvement
70Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is still something of an unsinkable juggernaut. While interest stateside might have wavered a bit, globally it remains a genuine phenomenon – the last entry, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, amassed nearly $800 million at the global box office. That’s a lot of doubloons.
So when our very own Steve Weintraub jumped on a Zoom call with producer (and Pirates of the Caribbean’s captain) Jerry Bruckheimer for his upcoming Starz series Hightown, he also had to inquire about the status of Pirates of the Caribbean 5. (And we’ll have more from the chat with Bruckheimer very soon.)
“We’re working on a draft right now and hopefully we’ll get it shortly and give it to Disney and hopefully they’ll like it,” Bruckheimer said. “We don’t know. We’ve been working on it for a little bit.”
And it’s true – they have been working on the project for a while. In the fall of 2018, a little over a year since Dead Men Tell No Tales was released, it was announced that Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were in talks to write the script. (At the time Disney film production chief Sean Bailey said the pair were going to “make Pirates punk rock again.”) But a few months later, Reese and Wernick had already left the project and it was questionable how punk rock the Pirates franchise would ever be. Last fall, it was announced that Chernobyl writer Craig Mazin and Ted Elliott, one of the original Pirates of the Caribbean writers, would be teaming up for the new script. This is presumably the draft Bruckheimer is alluding to.
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