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11Jun2009

Disney Moving Up the Next 'Pirates' Movie?

DateThursday, June 11, 2009 at 9:56PM
Disney's "Hi-yo, Silver" may have turned into a "Whoa." Jerry Bruckheimer - who ought to know - says the House of Mouse may delay its Lone Ranger flick with Johnny Depp as Tonto so we can see Johnny Depp reprise Captain Jack Sparrow.

Bruckheimer tells Empire, "Disney's priority is to get Pirates made. That's a great franchise for them and for us too. Beloved, with a great character and Johnny's really excited about coming back to Captain Jack."

The last we heard about Depp's involvement with the fourth Pirates - which one would presume might lead to fith and sixth entries in the series - the actor was going to get something like $55 million to resume the role. I'd be pretty excited, too, if I were in his shoes.

Disney announced both movies at the same time last fall, and the impression then was that Lone Ranger would start relatively quickly, at least before another Pirates voyage. Mike Newell was named as the director a few months back, whereas Pirates is moving ahead without Gore Verbinski, and that's about the extent of its significant movement.

So if Pirates has moved up in the queue, the first available early July weekend is July 8, 2011 or July 1, if Paramount holds off on Transformers 3. Odlly, that wouldn't even mean delaying The Lone Ranger, which already had a 2012 release date penciled in.

But I agree with the move. You don't want to run the risk of Captain Jack no longer being relevant, and 2013 spaces out the first and fourth movies by ten years. Probably not in Disney's plans to do that.

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