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Sotiris wrote:Johnny Depp is OUT as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean franchise
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... chise.html

JeanGreyForever wrote:Interesting that they've made it official now. I figured we wouldn't get official confirmation until we got closer to another installment, whether it's a reboot or not.

Skyler Shuler wrote:There is a report going around that Johnny Depp is OUT as Jack Sparrow. Take that with a huge grain of salt as a script for the reboot has not been written and the source is a writer from the first PIRATES film...15 years ago, and hasn't worked with the company since.

Sotiris wrote:

Skyler Shuler wrote:There is a report going around that Johnny Depp is OUT as Jack Sparrow. Take that with a huge grain of salt as a script for the reboot has not been written and the source is a writer from the first PIRATES film...15 years ago, and hasn't worked with the company since.

Source: https://twitter.com/Skylerhxc/status/10 ... 9737128960

Patricier21 wrote:Why would you report this after what I just said above about its source?

netenyahoo wrote:Jack Sparrow needs to at least make some appearance in the movie. The series has been all about him and any new movie won't be the same without him.

Atlantica wrote:Elizabeth Swann all the way people !!!!!!!

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'd love to see Keira Knightley carry the franchise. She complained about not being able to actually have fun in the role until the third film so maybe she'd be open to actually do more films where she can have adventures and not play the damsel in distress.

We are hearing from multiple sources that Disney is indeed ready to part ways with Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow character that has led the franchise over the last 5 films. We are also hearing the studio is looking to center the franchise on Redd, the recently revamped character in the popular Disneyland attraction who is also a meet-in-greet park character. Now it should be noted that a script is not finished, and things can certainly change.

It is unclear if the previously reported Joachim Rønning will return to direct, as the previous information had been based on an early version of the project before reboot plans were revealed. Jerry Bruckheimer will once again board the ship as producer. The ending to the last film left the door wide open for a potential Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Brenton Thwaites, and Kaya Scodelerio (who is contracted to return)-led sixth film, but it is unclear if these characters will be part of the reboot at this time.

Q: You've hired Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to work on a possible Pirates of the Caribbean reboot. Can Pirates survive without Johnny Depp?

Sean Bailey: We want to bring in a new energy and vitality. I love the [Pirates] movies, but part of the reason Paul and Rhett are so interesting is that we want to give it a kick in the pants. And that's what I've tasked them with.

Disney film production chief Sean Bailey’s effort to retool and relaunch the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is back in uncertain waters after the defection of Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, the hot-shot writing team behind Fox’s mighty Deadpool franchise.

Disney insiders say Reese & Wernick are no longer working on a sixth installment in the swashbuckler series that has grossed $4.5 billion in worldwide box office and $2.5 billion more in global merchandise since it first set sail in 2003. The films have all been built around Johnny Depp’s antics as the bleary buccaneer Jack Sparrow, but the actor’s recent travails and steep salary prompted Bailey to consider a new course for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and its flagship brand.

Bailey’s new direction began with the October hiring of Reese & Wernick, who are viewed as tone-savvy specialists in subversive action comedy after the success of the Deadpool series (which has posted the two largest opening weekends by R-rated films in Hollywood history) and Sony’s Zombieland (which celebrates its 10th anniversary with a sequel this October).

Bailey has been vocal in his excitement about the hiring, telling reporters and colleagues that the scribes were going to “make Pirates punk rock again” and give the franchise a much-needed “kick in the pants” that would revive the off-kilter charisma the brand exuded in its early days. Those high hopes faded in recent weeks.

Disney insiders are divided about what happens next. Some say a search is already underway for viable replacement options, others say the once-proud flagship of Disney’s live-action fleet may be headed to dry-dock for good.

Interestingly, there has been some spitball discussions about revamping the property for a Pirates of the Caribbean television series, but the budgetary and logistical challenges of a seafaring series may be too daunting. That small-screen tack wouldn’t be of any help to Bailey, whose moviemaking division needs major firepower just to keep up with its in-house competition (Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Animation Studios). Since taking the reins in 2010, Bailey’s division has delivered one $1 billion-dollar performer (2017’s live-action Beauty and the Beast).