Johnny Depp reportedly is considering a return to one of his most popular roles: Captain Jack Sparrow.
Pirates of the Caribbean Producer Jerry Bruckheimer tells EW that he’s had talks with Depp about reprising the swashbuckling character in a sixth Pirates film.
“If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it,” Bruckheimer says. “It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know.” (Depp had previously claimed that Disney had sent him overboard after ex-wife Amber Heard published a 2018 op-ed about domestic abuse.)
Discussions of a sixth film have been ongoing since 2019, and EW reports that the next installment would be a reboot.
“It’s a reboot, but if it was up to me, he would be in it,” Bruckheimer has said. “I love him. He’s a good friend. He’s an amazing artist, and he’s a unique look. He created Captain Jack. That was not on the page; that was him doing a little Pepé Le Pew and Keith Richards. That was his interpretation of Jack Sparrow.”
The reboot would be the first Pirates installment since 2017’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, starring Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley.
Bruckheimer tells EW that the reboot script is still under construction. “We haven’t quite gotten there yet, but we’re close,” he says.
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