In an ideal world, Orlando Bloom would love to see all the main characters back for more Pirates of the Caribbean action.
Orlando Bloom would love to see “everybody” back for another Pirates of the Caribbean film.
Disney film franchise’s producer Jerry Bruckheimer, 81, recently revealed he has talked to Johnny Depp, 62, about reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow as work gets underway on the screenplay for a sixth film.
And, Bloom has said he’d love to return as Will Turner if the rest of the cast – which also included Keira Knightley, 40, as Elizabeth Swann – agreed to reprise their roles and the script is right.
As quoted by Entertainment Weekly, Bloom said at Fan Expo Chicago: “Everything is in the writing, right? Everything is on the page, and I think there’s definitely, I’m sure there’s a way to create something.
“I would personally love to see everybody back. I think the way to win on that one is to get everybody back. If they can, and if everybody wanted to go back.”
He continued: “My thing is, if the script was great and — ideally it was everybody — it’d be kind of like in for a penny, in for a pound, you know.”
Sharing his thoughts on the reboot, the 48-year-old star said: “What they’re thinking…is how to do it.
“Do you bring in a female leading character that replicates Jack in some way? I don’t know. The jury is out on how to do it again.”
What may throw a spanner in the works is the fact Knightley is against the idea of being part of a franchise again.
She told The Times in November: “The hours are insane. It’s years of your life, you have no control over where you’re filming, how long you’re filming, what you’re filming.”
Bruckheimer recently told Entertainment Weekly Depp, like Bloom, is all about the script
He said: “If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it.
“It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know… we are still working on a screenplay. We want to make it. We just got to get the right screenplay. We haven’t quite gotten there yet, but we’re close.”
The fifth movie in the franchise, 2017’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, saw Depp return along with Geoffrey Rush (Hector Barbossa), 74, Bloom, and Keira Knightley, 40.
The following year, Disney cut ties with Depp, which he claimed was over an article his ex-wife, Amber Heard, 39, wrote – but did not mention Depp by name – in the Washington Post in 2018, which his lawyers say falsely implies he physically and sexually abused her while they were together.
Depp sued Heard for her op-ed, and the jury ultimately ruled that Heard’s piece, which had references to “sexual violence” and “domestic abuse”, were false and defamed Depp with actual malice.
While a sixth movie would be a reboot of the franchise, Bruckheimer would still like to see Jack Sparrow make an appearance.
He previously told Entertainment Weekly: “It’s a reboot, but if it was up to me, he would be in it. 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.”
He also revealed that Jeff Nathanson, 59, who wrote Dead Men Tell No Tales, was working on the sixth film.
He said: “I think he’s cracked it. 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.”
Orlando Bloom wants ‘everybody’ back in Pirates of the Caribbean
