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EXCLUSIVE: Disney has closed a deal with Terry Rossio to write the fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean. This will be the first one without Ted Elliott, his screenwriting accomplice on the first four pictures. The studio is also making moves to bring back director Rob Marshall for his second voyage on the franchise. This comes as his first effort, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is moving through post-production for a May 20, 2011 release. I’m told that Johnny Depp has a deal structure to return for a fifth film that will clearly be drawn up for him to reprise Jack Sparrow, though it’s too early to consider him locked. The studio and Jerry Bruckheimer are consumed with the fourth installment, but Rossio’s deal is done.
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Please stop already. The last two movies were unwatchable. And the trailer for the next one made my eyes bleed. Please, Disney stop!
INTERVIEW FROM MOVIEWEB REGARDING PIRATES 3:
What are you looking forward to for Pirates 3 and beyond?
Terry Rossio: The thing I will say about 3 is the ending – we have to end the trilogy.
Ted Elliott: You have to find an ending that plays naturally from the beginning of the first film and know that people can walk out of the theater, having experienced a climax.
Terry Rossio: There’s a part in it that has about 16 speaking parts to it and it’s an incredibly pivotal scene in the story and I’m looking forward to seeing it. It’s been a challenge to write and it and we have it.
Ted Elliott: It’s really been fun to do different things and trying something new. In Pirates 3, the emphasis is on love, on finality, making final decisions; we’re actually doing stuff that’s different.
I THOUGHT TRILOGY MEANT “3″????? SO MUCH FOR FINALITY!!
I don’t want to be an @$$hole but did you fall asleep and miss PoTC 3′s actual ending(which depending on who you ask could be a good thing)? Right before the credits roll we see Captain Jack, and Barbossa begin their quest for the fountain of youth. Love it or hate it there were plans for future PoTC films well before the third film dropped. From what I understand the story of Will and Elizabeth was meant to be a contained trilogy.
I’d be more pessimistic if Will and Elizabeth were returning or if Depp, and Rush were absent. Don’t get me wrong I have no quarrels with either Bloom or Knightley, just their painfully irritating characters hijacking the plot. Taking them out of the picture, while bringing the always exceptional Ian Mcshane(DEADWOOD REPRESENT!)in gives this film a chance to be quality in my opinion. I’m not all that happy with the over abundance of sequels. However a PoTC sequel looks better and better to me the more I see the Summer 2011 movie line-up.
So don’t watch them lol
Dear Stop, already please!
You need to be quite for some of us (ME!!!!!!!!!!) like pirates of the caribbean and would never want pirates of the caribbean to stop and I’ll be one of the people giving money to Disney for seeing the movie so for as long as the money comes Disney will never stop so just don’t watch the trailers if ur in such pain but i’ll watch them over and over and over for as long as I live. Savy?
-Angelica
I remember the good old days when studios were greenlighting original movies.
I cant wait for Pirates 12.
The fact that these movies make money is bewildering to me.
… when did studios EVER make original movies?
Bride of Frankenstein? Revenge of the Creature? Road to… 2 through 8?
Why isn’t Johnny Depp playing Dr. Syn or something?
NO MORE!
NO MORE!
It is because the movies are fun, and one must engage one’s brain to follow the multiple story lines. Some moviegoers prefer movies that engage the brain as well as the eyes and/or the libido. I’ll bet you did not like “Lost” or “The Lord of the Rings” either.
lost? lord of the rings? potc? intelligent? lol. grow up, you might as well be saying ‘my dick is bigger than yours.’ we can sit here listing off movies that demand far more from the mind.
oh and i thought the pirates series was popular because of its brainless entertainment and profitable actors. johnny depp + orlando bloom? thats bound to make money.
Actually, neither of them was a huge box-office draw before POTC, and the pirate films of the last two decades or so were all flops. So actually it was also story-based. Rossio and Elliot are very good writers, it’s worth checking out their script.
I won’t say how I got this, but in the next one, the pirates sail into the future (now) and work in conjunction with ebolamonkeyman.com to take out Nigerian spammers who clog the seas of the Internet. Depp is at Bruckheimer’s ranch in Kentucky right now trying to learn how to use email.
- LOL. Good one!
Jerry’s running out of ideas.
They are milking Pirates for every last doubloon. The first one was great and they should have left it at that. Now they are tarnishing the impact of the Black Pearl by stretching this concept way too thin.
I guess when Magic Kingdom becomes a hit, they’ll follow it up with A Night at California Adventure and an Evening at EPCOT…
You forgot Mr Toad’s Wild Ride and It’s a Small World After All.
Any word on why Rossio sans Elliott? Haven’t they become, by virtue of these movies alone, some of the most successful screenwriters of all time? why would they split up?
Unless, just maybe, by the grace of God, Elliott actually said, “Another one?!? You’re joking, right? Thanks, but no thanks. I’m going to take my millions and write a nice little indie and make the festival circuit.”
Because Ted Elliot is a pompous windbag who overly complicates every script he touches?
Ted & Terry have been writing together since “Little Monsters” (1989), for which they received their first feature film credits, and have been creating money for the studios since “Aladdin” (1992). They’ve had a great 20-year run, and I hope that it’s not over. But, it will be interesting to see how Pirates V develops without Ted onboard.
I read the book recently “On Stranger Tides” thanks to my future son-in-law. The book is freakin’ fabulous! If they can come CLOSE with the movie, it will be worth the wait for an excellent flick.
The best pirate movie ever made was only five minutes long it was Video Pirates in Amazon Women on the Moon. More entertaining in five minutes than all five of these bloated monstrosities put together. Depp should demand $50 million to do the fifth film and $60 million to do a sixth film. Take them for all they’re worth Johnny.
Stop the madness…… Disney, you are becoming like George Lucas milking this dead cash cow!!! Just stop!! And putting Edward Teach in the 4th installment? Not a good Idea. Black Beard is not Disney material. Disney is ready to lead children astray into thinking Historical pirates were just misunderstood.
Grrrrrrrrrrr.
there’s nothing wrong with him. what’s wrong with you? why do you care how he spends his/her money? worry about yourself and your money.
I know two things:
1) It will suck.
2) I will see it at least three times in the theater and buy the Blu-ray the nanosecond it’s available.
And there you have it: everything that’s wrong with Hollywood contained in this brief posting.
You know the movie is going to be bad, but because it’s a blockbuster with a lot of money and a bloated advertising campaign behind it, you’ve already decided to pay for it. Multiple times.
When greed and insanity are rewarded, is it any wonder that what we see is more greed and insanity?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Because we can’t help ourselves. We love movies, and in the absence of good ones (I personally think we’ve been in a horrible two year drought), we placate ourselves by pretending to like the drivel that is fed to us.
I actually enjoyed the first two movies – good cast, good scripts, solid pacing, and Kiera Knightley’s electric smile.
I watched the third as a family outing and it was painful, especially the never-ending climactic sequence. It’s almost unfathomable that they would make not one, but two more…and please, let’s stop already with elevating Johnny Depp as this brilliant actor. He’s like Angelina Jolie, always in sh!tty movies, but somehow never suffering the fallout or losing his glow.
I understand people’s dislike for At World’s End even though I had no problem following the many back stabbing. But I don’t get why everyone (at this site) seems to think that On Stranger Tides will be awful, based on other comments on other sites you’re in the minority. I definitely don’t get what people hated about the second film.
On Stranger Tides looks really good for a fourth film, you guys are drawing comparisons to Star Wars but there’s a difference, continuity, characters are coming back and the story is moving forward. They didn’t do that with Star Wars.
The bottom line is that the Jack Sparrow character is one of the most entertaining characters in film today/ever. He’s the reason why they want to keep making the films, as long as they manage to keep that element going then the franchise will continue to be fun to watch and won’t go stale.
Wow, great news!! Hopefully this becomes another trilogy. Cant wait for On Stranger Tides!!
Disney has already announced that they plan to make a new Pirates trilogy and were looking for ways to turn the new movie into a story arc for said trilogy.
You’ve got to be kidding me???????
No you’re not.
Thank you again Disney and jerry B. for just being extremely rich, obviously powerful enough to get a fifth going after the 4th will hopefully just drown at sea.
I mean really, where do you and the PIrates peons go from here?
Heyyy, how about you shipwreck on a deserted island and stumble across a motley group of Castaways who were just out galavanting around on a 3 hour cruise. Yes, a 3 hour cruise..and got…guess what? LOST.
Ya know…Pirates…Castaways…blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah.
I think there’s an amusement park ride and video game in there somewhere.
And you really should give Johnny Depp a raise out of all of this.
He’s too good of a real actor to be starving doing indie films.
If Johnny Depp loves France so much, he should stay there for five minutes and spend time with his non-wife and kids. Sick of the sight of this guy. Didn’t he and Jennifer Aniston learn anything about the overexposure fueled death knells suffered by Demi Moore and Robin Williams a decade ago when they had a new movie out every month?
No..they made HORRIBLE movies back to back. There is a difference. Pirates was nowhere near as bad as Jumanji, or Stiptease.
I don’t get the hating on these films. They are only meant to be mindless fun at the movies. That’s all. Just an escape for the movie goers. They aren’t meant to change the world or compete for best picture nominations.
One, Pirates was not Jerry’s idea. Disney handed it to him. Two, both Johnny and Jerry have personally received hundreds (plural) of millions of dollars from this franchise, despite Disney’s famous “pool” system of distributing the back end. At World’s End sucked because Jerry and Gore held it hostage in post and refused to hear any constructive criticism. Jerry is legendary for locking himself in the edit room and making costly changes regardless of any external input. And while his instincts are typically commercially sound, he’s been faltering over his last few movies. I don’t know why Disney continues to pay his insanely rich overhead deal and kowtow to his indulgences. His recent track record is weak.
Disney did not hand Bruckheimer an “idea.” They handed him a theme park ride. Which is not the blueprint for a movie or even an idea for a movie. It’s a theme park ride.
Elliot and Rossio provided the “ideas” and created this franchise basically from scratch.
Studios can try all they want to replicate the success of “Pirates” with “branded properties,” but seem to fail to realize that “Batthleship” and “8 Ball” and “GI Joe” are not ideas for movies or anything close.
Making something special happen on screen working from a board game or a plastic toy takes a mind-boggingly high level of skill/experience/imagination/work on the part of WRITERS like Elliot and Rossio, who need to be respected and supported and PAID throughout the process commensurate with their contribution to it. Not treated like hired help there to just add water and stir because any idiot can write a blockbuster franchise based off an amusement park ride.
HW – Wrong! Ted and Terry took the script originally written by Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert and re-wrote parts of it. They did not create the POTC franchise from “scratch.”
- Exactly! They also used the classic adventure literature as a source. When it came to the writing on their own they failed miserably. They tried so hard to please the producers that they forgot what their true task should’ve been. Was it a cowardice or the simple lack of the imagination, or both? – I don’t know but I know that they failed the characters that didn’t deserve such a treatment (I can’t forgive what they’ve done to Will Turner!); and they failed the audience that didn’t deserve such a treatment either. How proud they should be now.
The Pirates franchise is quickly becoming as lucrative and over-done as the Star Trek franchise. All that’s missing is a British Shakespearean thesbian taking over for the role of the captain when the original one gets too old.
Seriously, does nobody else see exactly how Shatner-esque the Depp captain is? He womanizes, drinks, and generally makes a mess of himself. When will they bring in the Patrick Steward-esque sober captain to replace Depp?
Also, the supporting cast is getting weaker with every iteration. I can’t wait until it’s just Depp, some CGI monsters, and a bunch of kindergarteners in “pirate” costumes with eyepatches and plastic swords.
Let it die a graceful death. Three was enough. Four was too many. Five is going ugly.
There is no movie without Verbinski. Rob Marshall is a retard and the RED cinematography is cheap as hell. No one even tries anymore.
It’s surprising that Disney is greenlighting a 5th film without even seeing what the box office on this one will be. Even LionsGate waited to see the box office for the low budget SAW films until greenlighting the following chapter and they had a short release timeframe to consider. Yet Disney is all set for a sequel to a film that cost at least $200 million to produce.
Between this and news that Disney is about to greenlight a Tron: Legacy sequel(s) it is clear that Disney wants to focus solely on franchises from now on. And extremely expensive ones at that.
Let’s hope the pirates sail into port and find a good script. Lord knows they need one.
At least the Pirates of the Caribbean scripts are ORIGINALS screenplays and not “remakes” or “reboots” or “reboot of a franchise in the form of a prequel”…………. Most movies today are bombing in the box office because no one out there penning scripts have original ideas anymore. Yes there are many original scripts out there so don’t go on saying well this movie and that movie because I didn’t say ALL movies are bombing in the box office.
I for one say keep penning the great scripts and keep producing great films. Movies are about franchises which is about MONEY! So if a franchise is successful than “ride the wave.”
Also this info above is purely speculative and I will believe it when it is confirmed. Go to WordPlayer.com and see what has already been stated about the above info.
Why yell about Depp being “overexposed?” He usually has one film a year released, and sometime none at all. How about people like Matt Damon, Nic Cage, or Decaprio? They are constantly on screen, with several films a year? People who scream about how horrible a film is, without actually seeing it, are interesting. Those are opinions really worth listening to.
why johnny depp is still doing this crap movies?? what happened with his career??
his 90s were damn good but now his picking some crap proyects like pirates, charlie, alice..i know lost of millions but what about new projects and different ones?
What career? Before POTC he had No Box Office, he was doing mostly the bad quality movies and all of his more or less serious award nominations came AFTER the POTC franchise hit the screens. He did like one and a half good movie before Pirates. I personally don’t care about BO or awards but since you are talking about the career, I think it’s fair to get the facts straight.
These movies are wildly entertaining. I like to be entertained when I go to the theater. Hence, I will go see all of the Pirates films. A lot of other people will too. Simple.
This fourth film is going to suck.
1. The last film was a bore due to lack of a story to tell and there’s no big idea here as far as I can see to continue the saga.
2. Rob Marshall’s movies, Chicago aside, are boring. He’s not a great story teller.
3. Johnny Depp is a comic character, basically a clown (in the best sense of the word) but I don’t think you can hang a whole narrative on Jack Sparrow.
4. The trailer is all bloated hijinks and no story idea. Just, “we made another one and it has johnny depp as jack sparrow!” That’s not enough, for me at least.
5. Jerry’s last few Disney movies are all bloated messes (prince of persia?) and there’s no reason to believe this will be anything different.
- Agreed to all you points (except the Chicago that I personally thought was a weak movie). And I don’t see any point to make the next movie without the original cast. As I said, there is not POTC for me without Will Turner. And to trade Keira to Penelope? Meh…
There’s no point commenting on a movie you HAVEN’T SEEN.
Lack of story in the last one? PLEASE. The last one had TOO much of story, which was why the audience got confused.
Oh and, if you do read about On Stranger Tides’ story, then you would know that there’s alot – Blackbeard, Britain, Spain, Angelica, Fountain, Jack, Barbossa, Mermaids, etc.
You’re being too presumptive without ANY facts.