“Pirates of the Caribbean” producer Jerry Bruckheimer mentioned in a latest interview with ComicBook.com that the present plan is to “reboot” the beloved Disney journey franchise, which has grossed $4.5 billion throughout 5 films. Bruckheimer was fielding a query about the future of his hit franchises, which additionally contains the Tom Cruise-starring “Top Gun” sequence.“It’s hard to tell,” Bruckheimer mentioned. “You don’t know. You really don’t know. You don’t know how they come together. You just don’t know. Because with ‘Top Gun’ you have an actor who is iconic and brilliant. And how many movies he does before he does ‘Top Gun,’ I can’t tell you. But we’re gonna reboot ‘Pirates,’ so that is easier to put together because you don’t have to wait for certain actors.”More from VarietyBruckheimer’s remark makes it appear as if the subsequent “Pirates” film will function an solely new solid, that means Johnny Depp wouldn’t return as Captain Jack Sparrow. Depp has headlined all 5 “Pirates” films up to now. Variety reported in summer time 2020 that Disney was in early growth on two “Pirates” films: A reboot led by Margot Robbie and a sixth movie in the authentic franchise written by Craig Mazin and Ted Elliott, the latter of whom co-wrote the first 4 “Pirates” films.Mazin told the Los Angeles Times final 12 months the script for “Pirates of the Caribbean 6″ is so weird he is surprised Disney signed off on it, adding: “We pitched it and thought there’s no way they’re buying it, it’s too weird. And they did! And then [we] wrote a fantastic script and the strike happened and everyone’s waiting around.”The final “Pirates” film, “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” opened in 2017. Robbie instructed Vanity Fair in November 2022 that her “Pirates” film, written by “Birds of Prey” scribe Christina Hodson, had been dropped, including, “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.”Bruckheimer then clarified that the script for Robbie’s “Pirates” will “come forward at a certain point.” He mentioned the challenge wasn’t utterly lifeless, however that Disney was prioritizing Mazin and Elliot’s script as a substitute. The plot for that “Pirates” movie stays underneath wraps. It’s anybody’s guess if it entails the return of Depp’s Jack Sparrow. Hollywood has shut out Depp lately amid legal troubles and his 2022 libel trial in opposition to Amber Heard.The producer expressed uncertainty over Depp returning to the “Pirates” franchise when requested about it by The Sunday Times in May 2022. “[Will Johnny Depp be back?] Not at this point,” he mentioned then. “The future is yet to be decided.”Whatever the future holds for the “Pirates” franchise, Bruckheimer now says it is going to be a reboot that sails into theaters first. Each of the 5 “Pirates” movies grossed more than $650 million worldwide, with 2006’s “Dead Man’s Chest” and 2011’s “On Stranger Tides” each topping the $1 billion mark.Best of VarietySignal up for Variety’s Newsletter. For the latest information, comply with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.