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Film mega-uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has two potentially massive sequels on his to-do list right now, and in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, he talked about progress on both of them. He phrased it like they were in a race:
“I think it’s a horse race between the two of them, so we’ll see. Right now, Top Gun is a hair ahead, but that’s it. We’re expecting a script shortly [for Top Gun 3].”
In the same interview, he confirmed that he’s met with Margot Robbie about the next Pirates film, but that it is not a female-led reboot. The project was shelved. This is thought to be the top priority for new Disney boss Josh D’Amaro and is now said to follow Jack Sparrow’s son, with Robbie in the female lead.
Sigh.
Look, Disney, we have been through this before. The most awesome Pirates sequel is the one nobody saw coming. Set it in the present day. The great-great-grandson of Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner is a down-on-his-luck salvage engineer and treasure hunter. He stumbles across a wreck, finds Jack’s compass, and somehow unwittingly unleashes all the forces of Davey Jones into the modern Caribbean.
Pleasure yachts start to disappear. Sailing charters and diving parties vanish. Turner is eventually led to Jack Sparrow, who actually found the Fountain of Youth hinted at in the original movies. He has been living, preserved, on an isolated island making his own rum for well over a century.
Cue lots of fish-out-of-water hilarity as Turner has to take Sparrow back to the modern world and, together, convince the incredulous authorities of what is really happening, as the scene is eventually set for a massive sea battle between the supernatural pirates and a few Coast Guard cutters.
There you go. Sorted. Jerry. Baby. This idea is now officially time-stamped by publication here, and I can be reached via the website. My fees are very reasonable.
Oscar-nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917) is reportedly in talks with Walt Disney Studios to write the screenplay for the sixth Pirates. That’s fine. I love a collaboration, too.
Christopher McQuarrie is writing the next Top Gun. Given the underused Ed Harris character in the previous movie – the “drone ranger” – then the next movie could well be the drones vs. real pilots story that was being circled originally for the sequel.
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