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Feb292008
Friday, February 29, 2008 at 5:00PM 'Pirates 4': Anti-Climax of the Caribbean
Knowing how much the major studios love money - and learning how much they have to play a little more give and take with audiences now between dumb popcorn fluff and smarter, smaller budget character driven pieces - it comes as no real surprise to hear rumblings of a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.Ain't It Cool News, which has been astoundingly prescient but also way off the mark in the past, has learned from one of their many insiders that Summer 2011 may mark Disney's next voyage on the seven seas. Disney loves, loves, loves sequels and will do them whenever they get the chance, but there was a sour taste left by the third movie in the series as well as the strong indication that almost everyone along for the entire ride wanted to get the hell out.
I don't know what Johnny Depp's contract situation is, but can you really see him doing another one of these? His career doesn't need it at the moment, I'm sure he'd like to focus on more original work, and Capt. Jack, which began as a parody of someone else, ended as a parody of himself.
Sparrow is still an option, according to the leak. Apparently, there are two sides of the argument...but not the argument as to whether or not making a quatro is a good idea, just how they should go about it. There's a camp that loves the idea of making it a smaller, more intimate Sparrow picture less reliant on special effects, and there's a camp that believes that the bigger you make it the better it is.
I vote no all the way around. And the only way I think Disney can ever bring the franchise or the character back - because I don't believe anyone wants to see Pirates without Sparrow (and possibly without Depp) - is to wait a few years and do a prequel or wait 10 years and do a Sparrow end-of-the-road blowout similar to Indy 4. Anything else would just be a waste of time and money.
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