The Margot Robbie female-led Pirates of the Caribbean reboot movie is dead at Disney.
While speaking with Vanity Fair, Robbie, who is starring in the Barbie movie with Ryan Gosling, revealed Disney doesn’t want to do the movie anymore.
“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, but I guess they don’t want to do it,” Robbie revealed.
The new Pirates of the Caribbean was first announced back in June of 2020 prior to franchise star Johnny Depp winning the recent trial against Amber Heard.
Christina Hodson who teamed with Robbie on the failed Birds of Prey movie was supposed to write the project, and Hodson is also known for writing Bumblebee and The Flash and the canceled Batgirl movie.
Margot Robbie Pirates of the Caribbean described as “female-fronted”
The flick was said to be “a new, female-fronted Pirates of the Caribbean” movie that was in early development and was described as not intending to be a spinoff of the long-running franchise that starred Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, “but rather a wholly original story with new characters under the Pirates moniker, itself inspired by the long-running attraction at Disneyland.”
Johnny Depp was supposed to star in a sixth movie but due to Amber Heard writing that op-ed for the Washington Post, Disney parted ways with the actor.
A new movie is actually in development but little is known other than one of the original writers is back writing it.
Johnny Depp felt betrayed by Disney over Pirates of the Caribbean
During testimony, Johnny Depp revealed that he felt betrayed by Disney.
“Hurt. Blinding hurt. It was like somebody hit me in the back of the head with a 2×4… Captain Jack Sparrow was a character I built from the ground up and was something that I, of course, put a lot of [myself] into the character and also having worked on these films with these people and added much of myself, much of my own re-writing of the dialogue and scenes and jokes,” explained Depp. “I didn’t quite understand how, after that long relationship and quite a successful relationship certainly for Disney, that suddenly I was guilty until proven innocent.”
Depp also added, “My feeling was that these characters should be able to have their proper goodbye, as it were. A franchise can only last for so long and there’s a way to end a franchise like that and I thought that the characters deserved to have their way out, to end the franchise on a very good note. I planned on continuing until it was time to stop.”
