Too much information: the creator of The Last of Us is preparing Pirates of the Caribbean 6 and announces a film “too strange”

No project scares Craig Mazin. After hands down the challenge of portraying the trauma of Chernobylthen do one set The Last of Us at the height of the video game, the screenwriter and showrunner intends to attack a monument of pop culture that is as cult as it is controversial: Pirates of the Caribbean.

Disney has greenlit Craig Mazin’s Pirates of the Caribbean

In an interview for the Los Angeles TimesCraig Mazin has revealed that he is working on a sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean, although the Hollywood industry strike put the project on hold. During the interview, Craig Mazin he let slip a detail that has something to pique our curiosity about, stating that he had worked with him Ted Elliot, to whom we owe the screenplay of the first four works of the saga :

” We presented our project to the studio, but we were convinced that they wouldn’t buy it, that they would find it too weird. But they bought it! And then Ted Elliott wrote a great script, but the strike has come, so everyone is waiting. »

The project is all the more courageous in this, as well as being one of the most profitable sagas of recent years, Pirates of the Caribbean suffered a spectacular loss of momentum with the critical and commercial failure of The Fountain of Youth (2011) e Salazar’s Revenge (2017), which failed to match the excellence of the first trilogy directed by Gore Verbinski.

Add to that the controversy surrounding Johnny Depp and you have a saga in the midst of a storm that seems to be struggling to find its way back. Whether or not Disney will limit its insanity to validating one scenario remains to be seen “too weird” OR will go so far as to cast Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow…

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