With the release of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 rapidly approaching, people are already starting the speculations about Pirates of the Caribbean 4. The big speculation floating around today is the idea that the next Pirates movie may indeed be a spin-off of sorts and go on without Johnny Depp. I picked up on this from our friends over at Cinema Blend who give us this:
Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer says the fourth movie may actually be a spin-off instead. He says, “This is the end [of the current trilogy], but whether one of the characters or a couple of the characters continue on, it’s a possibility.” That statement was later backed up by Geoffrey Rush, who even went so far as to hint that the thing may go on without Johnny Depp. Since he’s the one saying it, you’ve got to wonder if maybe they’ll shift the focus to his character, Captain Barbosa.
Ok, now no one is going to like what I have to say here… but… IF you must make a fourth installment of the Pirates franchise… I say going off in a different direction and focusing on different characters is the way to go. Pirates 2 pretty much ruined the Captain Jack character for me anyway (he went from a swashbuckling, eccentric, complex morally ambiguous hero in the first Pirates film… into a whinny, evil, cowardly, incompetent, bumbling cartoon version of the character in the second one).
And besides that… Barbosa has been my single favorite character in the franchise anyway. Or how about a movie focusing on Barbosa and the Chow Yun Fat character? That would RULE! Man I hope Pirates 3 gets back to what made Pirates 1 so good.
