Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is making an attempt to name a parley between Disney and Johnny Depp to deliver the beleaguered star again to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
“If he likes the way in which the half’s written, I believe he would do it,” Bruckheimer advised EW . “It’s all about what’s on the web page, as everyone knows.”
Bruckheimer has remained pals with Depp all through the actor’s contentious authorized battle along with his ex-wife, Amber Heard, a saga that included accusations of abuse and led to Disney dropping Depp from the Pirates model. In 2022, a Virginia jury discovered Heard answerable for defamation (they later settled), seemingly opening the door for Depp’s Hollywood comeback.
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Throughout the trial, Depp testified that he would by no means return to Pirates of the Caribbean. “There was a deep and distinct sense of feeling betrayed by the folks that I’ve labored laborious for,” he stated. “People who I delivered a personality to that they initially despised, however I caught to my weapons with the character, and it appeared to work.”
Now, in line with Bruckheimer, Depp has modified his thoughts, script pending. “We’re nonetheless engaged on a screenplay,” he stated. “We wish to make it. We simply acquired to get the appropriate screenplay. We haven’t fairly gotten there but, however we’re shut.”
Nonetheless, Bruckheimer supplied no touch upon Disney’s enthusiasm for such a reunion. The Home of Mouse could have the ultimate say — in spite of everything, the entire film franchise is predicated on one in all their amusement park rides.
Since 2022, Depp has labored virtually fully exterior of Hollywood. Final month, he joined Alice Cooper onstage for a canopy of “Paranoid” in tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne.