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Margot Robbie to star in female-led ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
2020-06-29
[NYPOST] Margot Robbie will star in a female-led version of "Pirates of the Caribbean" for Disney with "Birds of Prey" writer Christina Hodson on board to write the script.

Disney is in early development of the untitled project. The Robbie-Hodson collaboration is being developed separately from another "Pirates of the Caribbean" reboot that was unveiled in October with franchise veteran Ted Elliott and "Chernobyl" creator Craig Mazin hired to develop a story.

Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced all five "Pirates" movies, is attached to produce both the Elliot/Mazin and the Robbie/Hodson projects.

The previous "Pirates" movies, all starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, grossed $1.5 billion domestically and $3.07 billion internationally, with the North American market representing a progressively smaller share. The domestic total for 2017’s "Dead Men Tell No Tales" hit $172 million, while foreign markets delivered $622 million.

Posted by:Fred

#13  Kung Fu Mama...

The winner takes all..
Posted by: crazyhorse   2020-06-29 12:09  

#12  Because the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters worked so well.
Posted by: TZSenator   2020-06-29 10:37  

#11  ^ They had to change the title after it was already out in theaters
Posted by: Frank G   2020-06-29 10:10  

#10  Birds of Prey; didn't that flop harder than a one winged turkey dropped from a helicopter?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-06-29 09:58  

#9  #6 1954
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-06-29 09:43  

#8  a female-led version of "Pirates of the Caribbean" for Disney

Pandering only to women? Sounds like another Hollywood stillborn.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-06-29 09:19  

#7  Thank Congress for allowing Hollyweird to write off stuff like this on their balance sheet. If they were made to 'eat it', there'd be a lot fewer vanity and virtue signaling gigs from the bubble (less of course, those financed in total by the Chinese).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-06-29 08:19  

#6  I wanna see a movie about an all white NBA team.

Hoosiers
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-06-29 07:42  

#5  I was trying to figure out a sex reversed remake of “Some like it hot” but it just got too complicated.
Posted by: Grunter   2020-06-29 03:23  

#4  I wanna see a movie about an all white NBA team.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-06-29 03:15  

#3  The remakes are coming faster.
Posted by: Grunter   2020-06-29 03:08  

#2  An all-female Pirates of the Caribbean remake could do well at the box office if there was sufficient T&A to overcome the drag of "all-female remake".
Posted by: SteveS   2020-06-29 02:23  

#1  Remember Geena Davis in Cuththroat Island(1995)? On second thought, try to forget that disaster.
Posted by: magpie   2020-06-29 00:53  

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