Three Years After Saying Her Pirates Of The Caribbean Project Was Scrapped, Margot Robbie Is Still On Board, Jerry Bruckheimer Reveals

Turns out Pirates of the Caribbean isn't done tossing messages in bottles. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer says Margot Robbie's Pirates movie is not dead after all, even though Robbie herself said Disney bailed on it a while back. Classic development limbo stuff.

The new status: not dead, just deeply 'on the page'

Asked where the Pirates spin-offs stand, Bruckheimer told The Wrap that they're still moving on one script and quietly let another go. The producer put it like this:

"We're working on a script. It's always on the page; if we don't have it on the page, it's not gonna get on the screen. We had two scripts at one point, and then one kinda dropped out, and then we kinda went on with the other one."

The Wrap floated the obvious follow-up: wasn't Robbie's more female-led take the one that fell apart? Bruckheimer's answer was short and a little cryptic:

"Well, she's still involved."

Translation: there were multiple Pirates ideas in play, one got shelved, and Robbie hasn't been cut loose. Inside baseball note: studios often keep talent attached while scripts shuffle around, even if the exact version they signed on for changes.

But Robbie previously said Disney passed

Back in November 2022, Robbie told Vanity Fair the project she was developing sounded exciting, but the studio wasn't into it at the time. Her words then:

"We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more of a female-led - not totally female-led, but just a different kind of story - which we thought would've been really cool, but I guess they don't want to do it."

So yes, the status whiplash is real: Robbie said Disney didn't want to make that version; Bruckheimer now says she's still in the mix while they work from a different script. Both can be true in development land.

Meanwhile, the original crew is circling

Orlando Bloom, who played Will Turner, sounds open to Pirates 6 with the old gang - as in Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp. On This Morning, he kept it vague but optimistic:

"There's been talk. I can't say anything at the moment, because I really don't know. They're definitely... I think they're trying to work out what it would all look like. I, personally, think it would be great to get the band back together. That would be great. But there are always different ideas, so we'll see where it lands."

Quick refresher: where Bloom has been in this saga

• Main hero duty in The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, and At World's End
• Skipped Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
• Popped back in for a cameo in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

The bottom line

There are still Pirates projects floating around. One script was dropped, another is active, and Bruckheimer says Margot Robbie remains involved in some capacity. Orlando Bloom would love a reunion for a sixth film, but nothing is locked. Until there's a finished script Disney actually greenlights, it's all wind in the sails and no ship on the water.