Disney has been hard at work with figuring out which direction to take the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise. The films were quite popular due to Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow, though due to his legal debacle with Amber Heard, his remaining time as the character was left unclear. Now another update for the Pirates of the Caribbean film series implies a bleak future ahead for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.
Johnny Depp has been associated with Pirates of the Caribbean ever since the film franchise launched with The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003. His role as Jack Sparrow was considered one of the film’s biggest highlights, and he’s one of the few actors to return for every film to date: Dead Man’s Chest in 2006, At World’s End in 2007, On Stranger Tides in 2011, and Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017.
Since 2017, however, there have been varying discussions about where the franchise would next be headed. Most recently, reports of a reboot have surfaced, and those reports were verified when producer Jerry Bruckheimer shared the following to ComicBook.com:
“But we’re gonna reboot ‘Pirates,'” Jerry Bruckheimer shares when discussing whether a Top Gun sequel or new Pirates movie would be more likely to happen next. “So that is easier to put together because you don’t have to wait for certain actors.”
This seems to indicate that one of the “certain actors” would be Johnny Depp. After all, his legal debacle with ex-wife Amber Heard seems to have put him in hot water with Disney. Though many fans are supportive of Depp and would love to see him back as Jack Sparrow, it looks like Disney would much rather reboot the brand with a fresh new cast instead.
Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any further updates regarding the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise and the career of actor Johnny Depp as we have them. Though it seems unlikely that Depp will ever clash path with the world of Pirates of the Caribbean again, we’ll just have to see what happens. After all, stranger things have certainly happened in Hollywood.