The Pirates of the Caribbean sequence has been enormously money-spinning for Walt Disney Studios, having grossed $3.7 billion all-inclusive over the course of four episodes to date. Disney is revitalizing the franchise in 2017 with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, an accumulation to the franchise that once again still features Johnny Depp playing the persistent pirate Jack Sparrow. Javier Bardem co-stars in Dead Men Tell No Tales as Captain Salazar, the undead pirate who run-away from the Devil's Triangle, after years of being trapped and is out to kill every swashbuckler left on the high seas - Captain Sparrow too.
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It's been stated for a while now that Dead Men Tell No Tales will serve as approximately of a soft reboot for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Orlando Bloom is confirmed to be repeating his original Pirates of the Caribbean sequence role as Will Turner in Dead Men Tell No Tales and has said in the past that, as he appreciates it, the relationship amongst Will and his now-grown son will play a key role in the movie. It only makes sense, then, for Will's wife and his fellow Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy co-star, Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightley), to also show up in Dead Men Tell No Tales.
TooFab is commentary that Knightley will indeed be in Dead Men Tell No Tales, having secretly shot some material for the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film. Although Elizabeth's return in the film might seem like an easy choice, TooFab is reporting that Knightley's character only give the idea in a "small cameo during the end credits". However, the scene allegedly sets up Elizabeth to play a more projecting role in Pirates of the Caribbean 6, should it happen.
Still, things still shake out, the larger suggestion here is that Dead Men Tell No Tales may set up future Pirates movies to be more fixated around the Turners and less focused around Jack Sparrow. Captain Jack will no doubt remain to be part of the contract for as long as it continues on, but seeing as the fourth Pirates segment perhaps showed why Jack shouldn't be the leading role of this series - coupled with Depp's star-power having washed-out in recent years - this doesn't like a bad style to take to reviving the franchise, what's more.
