Jerry Bruckheimer Has Spoken With Johnny Depp About Returning as Captain Jack Sparrow for Pirates of the Caribbean 6: 'I Think He Would Do It'

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has said he’s spoken to Johnny Depp astir returning arsenic Captain Jack Sparrow successful Pirates of the Caribbean 6 — and it sounds similar the histrion is interested.

"If helium likes the mode the part's written, I deliberation helium would bash it," Bruckheimer told Entertainment Weekly. "It's each astir what's connected the page, arsenic we each know."

So, however astir that publication then? According to Bruckheimer, it's getting person and person to completion, but there's inactive enactment to beryllium done. "We are inactive moving connected a screenplay," helium said. "We privation to marque it. We conscionable got to get the close screenplay. We haven't rather gotten determination yet, but we're close."

Bruckheimer has for immoderate clip present teased the imaginable for Disney's long-awaited Pirates of the Caribbean 6, which would travel 2017's Dead Men Tell No Tales. Plans present look to beryllium firming up, with a reboot of sorts featuring a premix of caller and returning characters likely.

Any instrumentality to the Pirates franchise for Depp would beryllium surprising, fixed Disney chopped ties with the histrion (he claimed this was the effect of the work of a 2018 op-ed successful which his ex-wife, Amber Heard, wrote that she had been a unfortunate of home abuse).

Speaking recently, Orlando Bloom said helium was unfastened to returning arsenic Will Turner aft sailing disconnected into the sunset with Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Swann backmost successful 2007's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Speaking successful June, Bruckheimer confirmed "some" erstwhile Pirates of the Caribbean actors would instrumentality for the adjacent movie, portion offering "a caller take" connected the franchise overall.

When asked whether a caller instrumentality meant an all-new cast, Bruckheimer replied: "Well, not each caller actors. We'll person immoderate back... I’m not going to archer you which ones — you'll person to guess."

Meanwhile, Depp is dilatory but surely returning to the limelight. He’s presently moving connected creating the quality of Hyde for a caller graphic caller — and Ridley Scott is involved.

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