Pirates 5 Is Delayed At Least A Year

The fifth installment of the series called Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales was set for a July 10, 2015 release, but due to script and budget issues the sequel has  now been delayed.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer told The Hollywood Reporter that they are pushing the release back at least a year, to the summer of 2016.

Disney sent out an update yesterday indicating that the release date is now “unset” but did not elaborate on the film’s timetable.

"Kon-Tiki" directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are due to call action and are reportedly working on the latest draft of the script after Jeff Nathanson (Men in Black 3) recently did a rewrite of his initial script, but it still needs work making a March production start impossible,

”We have an outline everyone loves but the script is not done,” Bruckheimer said, adding: “How do you budget an outline?”

Rønning and Espen Sandberg said in August that the new film will be a combination of a stand-alone story, and adding to the "overall mythology of the series" (Read not as stand-alone as "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides " but not as mythology heavy as the first two sequels--Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End).

There's a Pirates of the Caribbean 6 in development.