20 years after uncovering buried treasure with “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” Disney has yet to repeat that success with any of its other theme park ride-inspired films.
As such, the House of Mouse intends to return to the scene of the crime for what will be its sixth round of blockbuster piracy so far.The sixth “Pirates of the Caribbean” installment has already gone through several permutations.
“Deadpool” writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick once toyed with the notion of rebooting the franchise, and there was even talk of a spinoff film starring Margot Robbie taking the place of a traditional sequel at one point.
Back in 2022, Robbie indicated the latter film, which was written by her “Birds of Prey” scribe Christina Hodson, has since sunk into Davy Jones’s Locker, but that may not be the case.
In a later interview with Collider, series…
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