Orlando Bloom may be rejoining Johnny Depp for the next Pirates Of The Caribbean film - which may just be a reboot...
This story contains a spoiler from the third Pirates Of The Caribbean film.
After the criticism aimed at the second and third Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, the fourth - Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides- was supposed to be a reboot of sorts. The director changed, it was set to be more of a standalone movie, and it turned out to have a sporting claim on being the worst of the lot.
Even the most vehement defender of the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels tends to admit that none of the follow-ups have come close to matching the first film. And so perhaps it's unsurprising that Disney is looking to re-energise things again for the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean 5.
Orlando Bloom has been chatting to IGN, and he revealed that he has indeed been in talks to return to the series. And he said that "basically they want to reboot the whole franchise, I think, and do something with me and the relationship with my son".
He added that "I’m of course Davey Jones now, so I’m down the bottom of the ocean. It might be kind of fun to do something where I’m rumbling round the bottom of the ocean, because I won’t look anything like me."
If the fifth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie is a reboot of sorts, it's one that's keeping key components of its cast in place. Johnny Depp is, of course, set to return to play Captain Jack Sparrow (a role he was Oscar nominated for once), whilst Geoffrey Rush is expected back as Barbossa. Javier Bardem is a rumoured new addition to the cast.
Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 starts shooting in Australia next year, with Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg directing. It's set for release in July 2017.
IGN.
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