PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5

'PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES' DELAYED BEYOND SUMMER 2015

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer reveals script issues behind the move, which follows the summer flop "The Lone Ranger": “We’re supposed to start [shooting] in March and you start spending a lot of money now.”

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer says the decision to push Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which is set to returnJohnny Depp to the Capt. Jack Sparrow role, was made because of script issues. He is hopeful that the film can be ready for summer 2016.

Disney is flush with product so the studio is not pressuring for a start. And the summer of 2015 already is packed with major films, including Warner Bros.' tentatively-titled Batman vs. Superman, set to open one week after Pirates' original July 17 date. Disney's schedule for 2015 still includes Star Wars: Episode VII, another Avengers movie and a Pixar film, Inside Out.

Right now, other than Pirates, Johnny Depp has two other movies in the pre-production stage; Mortdecai and Into the Woods. There is also the matter of the recently announced follow up to Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.

Will the delay of Pirates complicate things for the actor’s already busy schedule, thus further delaying the production of Dead Men Tell No Tales? Right now, we will just have to wait and see how things unfold.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, filmmakers were not happy with screenwriterJeff Nathanson’s initial draft of the script calling it “too expensive” and “really hard to follow”. He is currently in the process of re-writing the script based on an outline that was very well received.

Disney now hopes to keep the cost of the fifth Pirates movie under $200 million — a goal the studio is unlikely to meet. But bringing in Kon-Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, who made their film on the water for a price, should help keep costs down. Nonetheless, industry observers have anticipated a tough negotiation between Disney and Bruckheimer, given the size of the Lone Ranger write down.

 

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