Johnny Depp is interested and a script is being commissioned for a further Pirates Of The Caribbean adventure…
Disney is clearly confident that its big tentpole picture this year, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is going to deliver for the studio. And with good reason: as critically maligned as the last film in the franchise to date was, At World's End still brought in scary amounts of money.
It seems to have learned from its mistakes, too, as instead of getting through sequels as quickly as possible, to the detriment of any kind of logical script, it took its time pressing ahead with On Stranger Tides, and it's putting the wheels in motion now for a fifth adventure.
Johnny Depp has told Entertainment Weekly, too, that he'd be happy to board Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 and that discussions regarding a further sequel have already taken place. "As long as we can put all the puzzle pieces together, I would most definitely consider it," he said.
Disney has thus gone one stage further, and Deadline now reports that it's already employed Terry Rossio, who worked with Ted Elliott on the first four films, to begin work on a screenplay for a fifth. Elliott won't be joining him this time around, though.
For now, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is released on May 20th.
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