Disney
Audio By Carbonatix
Longtime Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer — who, at 81-years-old, clearly hasn’t lost a step as his just produced the new F1 movie — recently provided an update on a potential sixth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Jerry Bruckheimer got his start in the 1980s with Paramount Pictures, producing films such as Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, and Days of Thunder (1990).
He then moved to Disney in the 90s and has been prolific ever since, with his credits including Crimson Tide, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Gone in 60 Seconds, Remember the Titans, Pearl Harbor, and the Pirates franchise.
Speaking at the premiere of the Brad Pitt-starring F1 movie in New York City, the Hollywood OG shared an update on Pirates 6 and said they’re working on the script, while also teasing that certain actors will return.
“We’re working on a screenplay. Hopefully we’ll get it right — and then we’ll make it. We really want to make it, that’s for sure. It’ll be a new take on it… Well, not all new actors. We’ll have some back. I’m not going to tell you which ones — you’ll have to guess,” Bruckheimer told ScreenRant in a red carpet interview at the premiere of F1.
“Well, I don’t know, I can’t say anything at the moment because I really don’t know, but there’s definitely availability. Ithink they’re trying to work out what it would all look like, I personally think it’d be great to get the band back together. That would be great, but there are always different ideas, and so we’ll see where it lands,” Orlando Bloom said in an interview with the British talkshow This Morning earlier this month.
Disney’s apparent desire to make a sixth Pirates of the Caribbean movie with Johnny Depp back in the fold has been an open secret for a couple of years now, so it’s difficult to imagine that Bruckheimer is referring to anyone else but him.
The most recent film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was 2017’s Dead Men Tell No Tales, which represented a low-point for the series at it was the worst-reviewed film of the five and the second lowest-grossing behind the 2003 original.
All five of the Pirates of the Caribbean are currently streaming on Disney+.