Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed that the previously talked about female-led “Pirates of the Caribbean” spin-off film, starring Margot Robbie in the lead, could be resurrected.
The project was first announced in 2020 with Robbie attached to lead the cast, “Birds of Prey” scribe Christina Hodson to pen the script and Bruckheimer himself to produce.
Then last month, Robbie indicated the project was never going to see the light of day, saying that though they had been developing the project, it had stalled and “I guess they don’t want to do it”.
Today, Bruckheimer tells Collider that the current sixth “Pirates of the Caribbean” project was written simultaneously alongside the female-led spin-off. They’ve decided to move forward with that sixth film, but in doing so, it doesn’t mean the spin-off is dead:
“I think that that script will come forward at a certain point. We developed two different stories for Pirates, and the other one’s going forward first, so that’s what we’re working on, to try to get that one made.”
Ted Elliott, who wrote the scripts for the first four “Pirates” films, has teamed with “Chernobyl” creator Craig Mazin to pen that sixth film’s script. Specifics of what legacy characters it’ll bring back are unknown.
