‘Pirates of the Caribbean 6’ Script Is ‘Too Weird’: ‘We Pitched It and Thought There’s No Way’ Disney Is Buying It… ‘And They Did!’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Craig Mazin recently told the Los Angeles Times that the script for “Pirates of the Caribbean 6” is so weird he is surprised Disney actually bought it.
Variety reported in summer 2020 that Disney was in early development on two “Pirates” movies: A reboot led by Margot Robbie and a sixth film in the original franchise written by Mazin and Ted Elliott, the latter of whom co-wrote the first four “Pirates” movies. “We pitched it and thought there’s no way they’re buying it, it’s too weird,” Mazin said. “And they did!
And then he wrote a fantastic script and the strike happened and everyone’s waiting around.” The last “Pirates” movie, “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” opened in 2017.
Robbie told Vanity Fair last November that her movie, written by “Birds of Prey” scribe Christina Hodson, had been dropped, adding, “We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more of a female-led — not totally female-led, but just a different kind of story — which we thought would’ve been really cool.
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