Pirates Of The Caribbean: Plot Details For #5

Although the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales--the fifth installment of the series--was delayed by almost a year recently, Bleeding Cool has posted details about the sequel's plot.

"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.

That said the film is still pretty far along in pre-production, therefore story beats are not expected to change all that much.

Ronning 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).

Franchise star Johnny Depp's nefarious do gooder Jack Sparrow will get a new female lead to play off of, a woman who will be accused of witchcraft though is actually a scientist.

Actual witches are reportedly a big part of the story, as is a former British military man turned ghost who is an ally of Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) while on a revenge mission.

There's also a young man and woman from British farming families who'll take on the Orlando Bloom /Keira Knightley style dynamic, an awkward wedding scene, and the myth of the Bermuda Triangle will factor in somehow.

Jerry Bruckheimer returns to produce the sequel

We will see Pirates 5 sometime during the summer of 2016