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 recommended.
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. Nevertheless, following the final film — 2017’s Useless Males Inform No Tales — Depp allegedly parted methods with Disney, and would now not be taking up the character for any additional initiatives.
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 Submit, 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 had 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 had 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 get together 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 enduring function within the forthcoming movie.
“We predict we now have a extremely good, thrilling story that honours the movies which have come earlier than but additionally 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: Useless Males Inform No Tales’ CREDIT: Picturelux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy
When requested concerning 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 affirm 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 Competition 2023. CREDIT: Samir Hussein/WireImage
Chatting with Leisure Weekly on the purple carpet at this 12 months’s Oscars, Jerry Bruckheimer acknowledged: “We’re all engaged on it [the next Pirates film]. We’ll see the way it comes out. We’re very excited, I feel we’re gonna have an excellent screenplay when, and we’re getting shut.”
Pressed additional for any information concerning a possible return for Depp, he mentioned: “We’ll see. I might adore it. I might like to have him within the film – that’s all that I can inform you.”
In different Depp information, final month the actor appeared on the 2023 version of the distinguished Cannes Movie Competition in help 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 acknowledged: “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 all people would love to have the ability to be themselves, however they’ll’t. They have to fall in step with the individual in entrance of them. If you wish to stay that life, I want you the most effective.”