The fourth
POTC film,
On Stranger Tides, doesn't come out for another two weeks, but that doesn't stop Disney from beginning the first stages of another installment. It appears that the script for a fifth
POTC film is already complete, and has been delivered to Disney. From THR.com:
Rossio tells THR that the still-untitled script was delivered to Disney this past weekend. It's the initial step in putting together the key creative pieces for another
Pirates film. Disney would like another installment, given the $3 billion in worldwide grosses for the first three films and the likely huge returns for the fourth movie, the first to be released in 3D.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has said he's in to make a fifth
Pirates. And sources say Disney has made overtures to Rob Marshall, who took over directing duties on
Pirates 4 from Gore Verbinski, who helmed the first three pictures, to return for another go-round (though no deal is in place for Marshall).
Despite the rather speedy development, Jack Sparrow himself - Johnny Depp - has little to no interest in making another installment so soon.
"It's not something where I would say, 'Let's shoot it next month to get it out by Christmas 2012,'" Depp says. "We should hold off for a bit. They should be special, just like they are special to me."
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hits theaters May 20th!