The quest to make a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie continues, with series producer Jerry Bruckheimer saying he hopes to make two movies, with one of them potentially starring Margot Robbie.
Talking about the future of the Pirates series, Bruckheimer addressed Robbie’s comments from 2022, in which she said that she didn’t think Disney wanted to make her concept for the franchise a reality.
“We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more of a female-led — not totally female-led, but just a different kind of story — which we thought would’ve been really cool,” Robbie said at the time. “But I guess they don’t want to do it.”
Robbie’s involvement with Pirate of the Caribbean stretches back to 2020, when she was announced as the star of a new movie written by Birds of Prey screenwriter Christina Hodson. Bruckhimer was said to be producing both Robbie’s project and a second film with Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin. Nothing has come of these plans to date, but it seems as if Bruckheimer is still plugging along in the background.
“It’s two different movies,” Bruckheimer told EW in a recent interview. “We hope to get ’em both made, and I think Disney agrees they really want to make the Margot one, too.”
Bruckheimer’s comments were part of a broader update for Pirates of the Caribbean, in which he confirmed that writer Jeff Nathanson is attached to write the full series reboot he teased in March. According to Bruckheimer, Nathanson — who also wrote 2017’s Dead Men Tell No Tales — has “cracked” the script for the new movie.
“He’s got an amazing third act. We just gotta clean up the first and second and then we’ll get there. But he wrote a great, great third act,” Bruckheimer said.
One way or another, it figures to be a bit before we see more Pirates of the Caribbean. The last movie in the franchise was the aforementioned Dead Men Tell No Tales, but while our review said it was “less bloated, dreary, and meandering than the last three entries,” it still suffered from many of the same problems.
We’ll see if Pirates of the Caribbean is eventually able to make it to fair seas again, with or without Robbie. In the meantime, these are the biggest movies still to come in 2024.
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