There’s a risk that Johnny Depp could as soon as once more tackle the function of Captain Jack Sparrow within the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, an insider near the film has instructed.
The actor performed the lead function in all 5 of the flicks within the franchise, which kicked off in 2003 with The Curse Of The Black Pearl. Nonetheless, following the final film — 2017’s Lifeless Males Inform No Tales — Depp allegedly parted methods with Disney, and would now not be taking up the character for any additional tasks.
This cut up got here in gentle of the latest trials between the actor and ex-wife Amber Heard, who claimed that the Hollywood A-lister had bodily and emotionally abused her.
The battle between Depp and Heard initiated in 2019, when Depp sued Heard for defamation, following a 2018 op-ed piece she had written for The Washington Publish, claiming she was a sufferer of home abuse.
The Aquaman actress then countersued Depp the next 12 months, and the case quickly made headlines after it went to trial in 2022.
Johnny Depp. CREDIT: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photos
Two trials have been held, one within the UK and one within the US. Within the UK libel case, whereas Depp was by no means accused of rape, he was discovered to have subjected her to violent home abuse. Within the US case, nonetheless, her claims have been discovered largely to not be true. Although Amber Heard vowed to enchantment the choice of the US case, she ultimately settled with Johnny Depp exterior of courtroom, paying the actor $1 million in December.
Amid the controversy between Depp and Heard, Disney reportedly turned its again on the Pirates Of The Caribbean actor. Later, Depp additionally claimed within the trial that he wouldn’t return to Disney “for $300million”.
Now, though neither social gathering has confirmed that they want to rejoin forces, Sean Bailey, the Disney Studios Movement Image Manufacturing President, has hinted that there could also be a risk of Depp returning to the long-lasting function within the forthcoming movie.
“We predict now we have a extremely good, thrilling story that honours the movies which have come earlier than but in addition has one thing new to say,” he mentioned to the New York Instances of the upcoming film, which would be the sixth within the franchise.
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: Lifeless Males Inform No Tales’ CREDIT: Picturelux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy
When requested in regards to the potential of Depp showing within the movie, he claimed that Disney was “noncommittal at this level.”
Whereas that is removed from that means that the actor will reprise his function of Jack Sparrow any time quickly, it does verify that Disney has not made any concrete selections to not have Depp be part of upcoming films.
Hypothesis a couple of potential look from Depp within the new challenge arose earlier this 12 months, when the movie’s producer admitted that he would “love” to have the actor return as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Johnny Depp on the Cannes Movie Pageant 2023. CREDIT: Samir Hussein/WireImage
Chatting with Leisure Weekly on the crimson carpet at this 12 months’s Oscars, Jerry Bruckheimer said: “We’re all engaged on it [the next Pirates film]. We’ll see the way it comes out. We’re very excited, I believe we’re gonna have an important screenplay when, and we’re getting shut.”
Pressed additional for any information relating to a possible return for Depp, he mentioned: “We’ll see. I might find it irresistible. I might like to have him within the film – that’s all that I can let you know.”
In different Depp information, final month the actor appeared on the 2023 version of the celebrated Cannes Movie Pageant in assist of his newest movie Jeanne Du Barry.
His look on the movie competition stirred controversy on-line – whereas he and his castmates obtained a seven-minute standing ovation at a screening. Talking on the backlash he obtained, he said: “I don’t really feel boycotted by Hollywood, as a result of I don’t take into consideration Hollywood. It’s an odd, humorous time the place everyone would love to have the ability to be themselves, however they will’t. They need to fall according to the individual in entrance of them. If you wish to stay that life, I want you one of the best.”