Disney Signs Rossio as Pirates 5 Screenwriter

Disney has signed Terry Rossio as screenwriter for Pirates of the Caribbean 5, even as Pirates 4: On Stranger Tides enters post production. Disney has already hinted they are rolling out a trilogy with 4, 5 and 6 back to back, so it’s not a surprise they are beginning to have announcements about the next before the first hits theaters.

The interesting thing of note here is that, on all previous Pirates films, Rossio worked with his longtime writing partner Ted Elliott, and yet his name is absent from this announcement. Elliott and Rossio have been writing together since Fred Savage and Howie Mandel made “Little Monsters,” penning “Aladdin,” “Godzilla,” “Shrek,” and “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.” It seems odd they would end their partnership now, but it looks as though they may have.

Deadline reports:

Disney has closed a deal with Terry Rossio to write the fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean. This will be the first one without Ted Elliott, his screenwriting accomplice on the first four pictures. The studio is also making moves to bring back director Rob Marshall for his second voyage on the franchise.

I loved “Curse of the Black Pearl,” and have despised the two sequels with a passion, each more than its predecessor. For me, this franchise just got silly and hard to buy into as the stories got larger and made less sense. Certainly, I’m admittedly in the minority, as each Pirates film grossed more than the one before it, but I still have no need or desire to get three more of these things.

Anyone excited about “On Stranger Tides?”

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