Orlando Bloom can’t wait to set sail again as Will Turner in the next installment of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Given Hollywood’s apparent love for revisiting beloved IP and audience nostalgia, the actor believes the time has never been better for another seafaring adventure based on the classic Disneyland attraction.
Orlando Bloom Hopes To Return in Next Pirates of the Caribbean Movie
“That was so fun and it was such a zeitgeist-y thing,” Bloom said of the first three movies—Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man’s Chest (2006) and At World’s End (2007)—while speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I think nostalgia is such a big thing in the world today, so we harking back to these things and the feeling you had watching…whatever your favorite thing was.”
While he has yet to receive official permission to come aboard, so-to-speak, Bloom is ready to pick up a sword and go swashbuckling when and if the call comes in.
“I ask that all the time,” he confessed. “I don’t know how’d they do it or when they’d do it but it’s a really good group of people.”
Bringing Will back into the fold shouldn’t be too hard, considering the blacksmith apprentice turned undead captain of the Flying Dutchman played a small role in 2017’s Dead Men Tell No Tales. By the end, he was finally reunited with his onscreen wife, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), and son, Henry (Brenton Thwaites), but haunted by Bill Nighy’s tentacle-faced scalawag, Davy Jones.
Bloom’s comments arrive on the heels of an update regarding Johnny Depp’s potential return as Captain Jack Sparrow. Depp has apparently been in talks with longtime Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Depp was apparently pushing for a sixth film before his high-profile legal troubles with ex-wife Amber Heard made headlines. Now that things have seemingly settled, however, a proper swan song for Sparrow could happen.
Bloom told EW he’s also kept in touch with Depp, hitting him up “every now and again, because he’s amazing.”
Gore Verbinski (Rango) helmed the OG Pirates trilogy before handing the reigns off to Rob Marshall (Memoirs of a Geisha) for On Stranger Tides, which remains the only installment in the series to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
Norwegian directorial duo Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg oversaw Dead Men Tell No Tales, whose global box office draw concluded with nearly $800 million. While not an insignificant sum by any stretch of the imagination, that financial step down may have played a role in why the franchise ran aground.
All five Pirates of the Caribbean movies are now streaming on Disney+.
