I chose MelG for two reasons. His work on “BRAVEHEART” and “APOCOLYPTO”. Who would you want to direct an Epic Cut-Throat film? I’m open to other director choices… throw ‘em out there.

As for Sasha B Cohen, he’s a bit overrated at times but…if there was a rumor of Cohen having an appearance in Pirates 4…I would have bought it..and I would be okay with it. I could kind of see it. He could even be the adversary/spoil of Sparrow and Barbarosa, I would buy it. Or even a new deckhand. Cohen as an eccentric drunk pirate? I say again, and I read Rossio/Elliot site from time to time, so with all due respect to them- I’ll say it again. I’ll take your word for it that Cohen being approached was a rumor. But if there was something to it, I wouldn’t burn a bridge down over it. I’m sold. So if it was an idea by a Dis exec, that individual-even if the suggestion went down in a heap of coals- needs a company bonus and/or pay raise. It is a brilliant idea even if it won’t happen.

As for Tim Burton…he and Depp work great together; they are working together again…but I don’t think Burton would go near the Pirates franchise if you dragged him there with a ball and chain.

Give me an R rated pirate film done by an epic film maker! I want it to be a serious Pirate film. A film about how Piracy really was!

Picture it: Mel Gibson’s “The Seven Seas”