Johnny Depp returning to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.The 78-year-old Hollywood producer revealed that he is working on a Pirates of the Caribbean sequel with Margot Robbie in the lead instead.When asked whether the axed star, who is on a defamation trial with ex-wife Amber Heard, will be back, he told The Sunday Times’ Culture magazine: ‘Not at this point.
The future is yet to be decided.’On reports that a female-fronted reboot of the original series is happening, the producer – whose blockbuster movies Top Gun and Bad Boys made stars out of Tom Cruise and Will Smith – added: ‘Yes.
We are talking to Margot Robbie. ‘We are developing two Pirates scripts – one with her, and one without.’Depp played Captain Jack Sparrow in five instalments of the films and alleges that he was dropped from the franchise after ex-wife Amber wrote a December 2018 op-ed in which she alluded to allegations of domestic abuse.Depp’s attorney Jessica Meyer claimed that the actor was interested in reprising his role in the sixth instalment in 2018, to give his character a proper send-off.’My feeling was that these characters should be able to have their proper goodbye,’ Depp testified during the trial in April. ‘There’s a way to end a franchise like that… I planned on continuing until it was time to stop.’He later agreed that even if Disney offered him all the money ‘on this earth’ he wouldn’t return to the film.Heard’s lawyer Ben Rottenborn said in court: ‘The fact is, Mr.
Depp, if Disney came to you with $300 million and a million alpacas, nothing on this earth would get you to go back and work with Disney on a Pirates of the Caribbean film?
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