Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has confirmed the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie will reboot the franchise.
Speaking with ComicBook.com in an interview for The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Bruckheimer confirmed the next entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise will be a reboot.
“It’s hard to tell. You don’t know, you really don’t know,” Bruckheimer said. “You don’t know how they come together. You just don’t know. Because with Top Gun you have an actor [Tom Cruise] who is iconic and brilliant. And how many movies he does before he does Top Gun, I can’t tell you. But we’re gonna reboot Pirates, so that is easier to put together because you don’t have to wait for certain actors.”
The next Pirates of the Caribbean movie might be “weird”
In September 2023, The Last of Us co-creator and showrunner Craig Mazin revealed that, prior to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, he and Ted Elliot had begun developing a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie they initially thought would be “too weird” for Disney.
“We pitched it and thought there’s no way they’re buying it, it’s too weird. And they did,” Mazin said, via The Los Angeles Times. “And then he wrote a fantastic script and the strike happened and everyone’s waiting around.”
Bruckheimer has also previously spoken on potential Pirates of the Caribbean spin-off movies, one which Margot Robbie was believed to be attached to at one point and another involving a “younger cast.”
So far, there have been five films in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise — 2003’s The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2006’s Dead Man’s Chest, 2007’s At World’s End, 2011’s On Stranger Tides, and 2017’s Dead Men Tell No Tales. Johnny Depp starred in all five films, with Gore Verbinski directing the first three entries. Rob Marshall directed On Stranger Tides, while Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg helmed Dead Men Tell No Tales.
