The fifth one gave Willabeth a good ending and that’s all I cared about, so no thanks
Five sucked and you were in it bro.
He realises this and that’s what he’s saying would be his reason for doing a 6. He wants to do a better job this time.
The cynical part of me thinks that he would obviously say that the next one’s going to be better to try to get people to watch it.
Rarely does a second film work, and a third one being any good at all requires a miracle.
Anything beyond that and I don’t waste my time.
(What am I saying, I don’t give the third one a chance unless reviews from friends are exceptional).
Counterpoint: every other Star Trek was an absolute banger through at least the first 8 movies.
The original pirates trilogy, the movie franchise this thread is about, breaks your own statement. So.
Agree to disagree. The “original” trilogy was a fucking mess. The writers have even admitted as much on the DVD commentary: Curse of the Black Pearl was written as a stand-alone adventure that tied itself up nicely, but when it took off at the box office, Disney went, “So you guys are finishing the trilogy, right?” Making it a trilogy was a retroactive decision. And I think the later movies clearly suffer for it: way too much Captain Sparrow for an ensemble, shoveling in new characters to make the rest of the casts’ continued involvement make sense, and ending the second on that cliffhanger was a wildly disappointing choice after how tight and self-contained Curse was.
Those two movies felt less like a continuing story and more like a theme park ride. But I guess that’s an appropriate development.
Shoveling new characters? Too much Jack Sparrow? A mess? Definitely agree to disagree, though I do get what you are saying between Curse and the following 2 movies having a sort of rift between them due to how it was written.
They have exceptions to their statement. They didn’t say they’re guaranteed to be bad. They said, “I don’t bother, unless…”.
They kind of wrapped it all up with the trilogy. 4 and 5 were so forced and they sucked because of it.
If they want to reboot it, they need to just have a completely new cast of characters with their own personalities.
I wouldn’t watch Pirates without Jack Sparrow as a character.
Does… he think he’ll have control over the writing and direction? Ask the Game of Thrones actors what wanting a good conclusion got them.
Presumably, he can refuse to participate unless he likes the script.
Actors absolutely can provide input over writing and direction.
For example in the recent Spider-Man film Tom Holland was in the writers room pitchinh ideas.
On Game of Thrones Liam Cunningham rejected Davos romance with Missandei.
In those cases the actors are already signed on so ultimately the writers and directors have the final say (within reason).
But in this case Depp isn’t signed on to a film. So before signing on to a film he has a lot of options for control.
Glad to see you back, Blaze!
It’s been a while!
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