A new rumor claims that actress Ayo Edebiri will be the main protagonist in a new Pirates of the Caribbean film.
Ayo Edebiri. Photo Credit: E M, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The latest rumor comes from scooper Daniel RPK via The Dis Insider and claims that not only will Edebiri be the main protagonist for an upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film, but the film itself features a black woman codenamed Anne leading a group of young pirates in search for treasure.
The Walt Disney Company has multiple Pirates of the Caribbean films in the works according to producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
He told The Times (UK) in May 2022, “Yes. We’re talking to Margot Robbie. We are developing two Pirates scripts — one with her, one without.”
Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures
The Margot Robbie Pirates of the Caribbean film was announced back in June 2020 with The Hollywood Reporter claiming it would be a “female-fronted Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney.”
They also stated it would be “a wholly original story with new characters under the Pirates moniker.”
Margot Robbie speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for “Suicide Squad”, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Robbie would confirm the film was in development in November telling Collider it would feature “a lot of girl power.”
It’s too early to talk about it but I appreciate that you’re psyched on the combo. I love Christina obviously. I’m not a producer on Pirates, so I’ll sit back and kind of wait for the process the way you’re allowed to do as an actor, which is nice.”
She added, “I don’t have to stress about it just yet. We’re really, really excited at the prospect of kind of adding a very key female element to that world.”
Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures
Robbie appeared to tell Vanity Fair that the project would not be moving forward, “We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more of a female-led—not totally female-led, but just a different kind of story—which we thought would’ve been really cool, but I guess they don’t want to do it.”
However, Bruckheimer refuted this telling Collider in December 2022, “I think that that script will come forward at a certain point.”
“We developed two different stories for Pirates and the other one’s going forward first,” he added. “So that’s what we’re working on, to try to get that one made.”
Carina Smyth Barbossa (Kaya Scodelario) and Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) attempt to run from the authorities in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2011), Disney
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Bruckheimer shared more details about the Pirates films to The Hollywood Reporter in December 2022, “Oh God, they’re all hard. I think we’re getting very close on that one, too. We have a very good script. We developed two of them — the one with Margot Robbie and one with a younger cast. The Margot Robbie one needs a little more work. The younger cast one is close. Hopefully we’ll get both of them.”
Bruckheimer then reiterated that the Margot Robbie script was still on the board, “It’s alive for me. It’s alive for Disney. I’m sure she was disappointed it didn’t go first — or maybe not because she’s very busy, so it might be a blessing to push this a bit. We believe we’ll get it made. It’s a very strong story.”
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