"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.
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.
The report also includes a brief synopsis:
"Jack and his team are in search of The Trident, which Captain Teague (Keith Richards) holds valuable information to. The villain this time is Captain Brand, a ghost that wants the Trident so he can get his revenge on Jack. Brand believes Jack turned his brother Eric into a pirate, which led to his death. Also, Jack becomes enchanted by Barbosa's (Geoffrey Rush) daughter, Carina Smyth, a woman called a witch by some though she's actually an adept astronomer."
Rebecca Hall is said to be circling to play Carina.
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
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