With the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in for an overhaul, Orlando Bloom hopes to get the gang back together.
The actor, who starred as Will Turner in four of the five films based on the Disney ride, said “the way to win” with a reboot is to reunite him with co-stars Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and the rest of the cast.
“Everything is in the writing, right? Everything is on the page, and I think there’s definitely, I’m sure there’s a way to create something,” he said at Fan Expo Chicago, according to Entertainment Weekly. “I would personally love to see everybody back. I think the way to win on that one is to get everybody back. If they can, and if everybody wanted to go back.”
While Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow is the one constant across the Jerry Bruckheimer film series, Bloom and Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man’s Chest (2006), At World’s End (2007) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), skipping out on 2011’s On Stranger Tides.
“My thing is, if the script was great and — ideally it was everybody — it’d be kind of like in for a penny, in for a pound, you know,” added Bloom.
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Last May, Bruckheimer updated that Jeff Nathanson was writing a reboot of the franchise, with a separate Christina Hodson-penned spin-off starring Margot Robbie.
“What they’re thinking…is how to do it,” Bloom said. “Do you bring in a female leading character that replicates Jack in some way? I don’t know. The jury is out on how to do it again.”
Although Bruckheimer said this month that he thinks Depp “would do it” if the reboot is written well, Knightley has sworn off franchises after her experience on the Pirates movies.
“The hours are insane. It’s years of your life, you have no control over where you’re filming, how long you’re filming, what you’re filming,” said Knightley in November.
