The nonstop money train created with Pirates of the Caribbean might be making a stop in Bloom Station. Rumour has it his ticket will only take him as far as the next movie.
Orlando Bloom’s character in the now-juggernaut Pirates of the Caribbean series will not survive through the inevitable fourth installment — so says a Disney insider who spoke to the British paper Daily Star. According to the source, the script for the fourth film is currently being written, and Disney bean counters are already examining ways to cut its massive costs. They have concluded that although both Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley are essential to the continued success of the series, Orlando’s character is human NyQuil and “not necessary” to maintain the gravy train (I could have told them that). Whether or not he will be killed in the third movie, due next summer, or be bumped off early in the fourth is not specified.
Personally I had predicted that the series would continue without any of the main characters at all, and that if they kept anyone, it would be Depp.
For the sake of the storyline, I would prefer that he and Knightly retire their characters so they dont break them up JUST for a plot device. The alternative however is to have Blooms character DIE. While this will upset teenyboppers across the nation, it would be the only “logical” way to remove the character. To have Swan and Turner separate under any other reason would undermine their trimph over adversity in their relationship.
Besides. Knightly looks TOO hot as a pirate anyways. No point in giving up that angle.
This of course presumes that there will even BE a fourth movie. One of the other reasons quoted for cutting Bloom is that as a main character he will likely demand equal pay to Depp and Knightly. And aside from the idea that he wont really “earn” that much of a draw for the movie, they admit that they are looking to cut costs.
Why cut costs on a series that is dragging in truckloads of money? I am thinking that maybe Disney doesnt have the confidence in a fourth movie, and if they DO go ahead with it as all rumours imply they are, that they will be tightening the purse strings to ensure it makes them some money.
