Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise has been dormant since 2017’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, but the series remains important to the company and it sounds like another entry in the series may be in the works.
Sean Bailey, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, told The New York Times that the company believes it has a “really good, exciting story” for a new Pirates movie that “honors the films that have come before” and also has “something new to say.”
The series, which is based on a Disney theme park ride, debuted in 2003 and spawned four sequels, which together brought in billions. The series stars controversial actor Johnny Depp, who plays Captain Jack Sparrow. Could he come back for the next movie? “Noncommittal at this point,” Bailey said, leaving a fair degree of ambiguity.