‘Pirates of the Caribbean’: Orlando Bloom Responds to Franchise Return Rumors!!

In the almost a decade since the money-making fan-favorite franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, bowed out with Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fate of the film series has been swinging from one extreme to the other. Now that we know for a fact that two movies are in development and that Disney is toying with the idea of mending its broken relationship with Johnny Depp, the sails are continuing to gather wind. Entering the ring and tossing in his name with hopes of picking up where the last movie left off, Orlando Bloom recently appeared on ITV’s This Morning to promote his upcoming feature Deep Cover. While there, The Lord of the Rings actor was asked about his potential return to the swashbuckling film series, and he seemed incredibly optimistic about the idea.

Addressing the possibility of reprising his role as Will Turner, Bloom said,

“Well, I don’t know, I can’t say anything at the moment because I really don’t know, but there’s definitely availability. I think they’re trying to work out what it would all look like, I personally think it’d be great to get the band back together. That would be great, but there are always different ideas, and so we’ll see where it lands.”

Bloom’s blacksmith was a mainstay in the franchise during the original trilogy, but eventually tapped out following 2007’s At World’s End. And yet, like a siren to a sailor, the movie series called to the actor, and he rejoined in a cameo appearance alongside his ex-co-stars Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy in the post-credit sequence for Dead Men Tell No Tales. While it seemed like — as Bloom said — the band would be back together for more adventures on the high-seas, the choppy currents of Depp’s personal life and his ongoing legal struggles with his ex-wife Amber Heard all but ran the franchise asunder.

What We Know About ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 6’

Thanks to an update given around this time last year to Collider’s Steve Weintraub by longtime franchise producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, we know that there are not just one but two scripts out there. During the interview, Bruckheimer revealed that Rush Hour, Catch Me If You Can, and Dead Men Tell No Tales scribe, Jeff Nathanson, was “working on a script.” He went on to add, “We have another one… We have two, and we don’t know who’s gonna win the horse race at this point.”