Sequels to beloved Disney franchises Tron, Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure are inching nearer and nearer.
At a Disney showcase occasion for Asia Pacific, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture manufacturing president Sean Bailey hinted the following instalments have been shut. Very shut.
Over Zoom, Bailey informed the viewers of journalists when requested about sequels to these three initiatives, “I love those titles and we’d love to bring those. We’re hard at work at all the titles you mentioned and some others.
“Quality has to come first and we as a group we start with the quality of the screenplay. We have to have a script in our hands that we feel incredibly passionate about and then we want to get a filmmaker we feel really passionate about.
“We’re getting close and I think we’re going to hear more about some of those really, really soon.”
Rumours and hypothesis of sequels have been swirling for ages, however the reality Bailey selected to name out these three titles specifically cements the developments round them.
On the floor, it seems that Bailey was merely answering a query put to him, and that his reply was considerably noncommittal. But it must be famous that Bailey was answering a ready query written by the Disney workforce, and requested of him by the hosts employed by Disney to MC the occasion.
This was not a query from a journalist in an viewers. The option to name out Tron, National Treasure and Pirates of the Caribbean was deliberate, and made by Disney, and the House of Mouse wouldn’t concentrate on initiatives it didn’t wish to spruik.
Which provides Bailey’s reply a bit extra weight than the standard “watch this space”.
A 3rd Tron film – after the 1982 authentic and Tron: Legacy in 2010 – might be essentially the most anticipated of the three. Plans for a sequel have been within the works since earlier than the discharge of Tron: Legacy, with Garrett Hedlund and director Joseph Kosinski initially hooked up.
Kosinski then mentioned it 2017 that whereas the sequel hadn’t been killed, it was in “cryogenic freeze”. Since then, Jared Leto has been hooked up and mentioned as lately as March that it was getting nearer.
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which launched its final instalment Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017, has been in hiatus for a number of years however final month there have been rumours controversial lead Johnny Depp was primed to return for a sixth film.
A leaked name sheet from the manufacturing’s take a look at shoot, as reported out of the UK press, purportedly confirmed Depp’s title whereas an insider claimed it was to begin filming in February.
Depp’s star is severely tarnished after years of controversies linked partially to ex-wife Amber Heard’s allegations of home abuse.
It additionally got here out throughout a defamation trial the lengthen of Depp’s unprofessionalism on set throughout Dead Men Tell No Tales necessitated his supervisor to fly out from the US to Australia the place it was being filmed to maintain him in line.
Even if Depp is rehabilitating his picture after the jury in his defamation case in opposition to Heard present in his favour, he nonetheless has a reputational challenge with medicine, alcohol and his work ethic, which makes him a legal responsibility for giant studios, particularly a household pleasant one similar to Disney.
Heard this week filed an attraction to both overturn the decision or for a retrial on the premise of excluded proof.
The case for a National Treasure sequel isn’t so laden with controversy. The first two movies have been field workplace hits and tentative plans for a 3rd film has been within the works for years. Updates in 2013, 2016 and 2018 all put the undertaking as “close”, ready on a script Disney could be pleased with.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer mentioned in 2020 {that a} third film was coming, in addition to a Disney+ spin-off collection. At least a kind of guarantees will certainly come to cross.
National Treasure: Edge of History – which doesn’t star Nicholas Cage – will likely be launched on streaming on December 14.
Bruckheimer mentioned in August there was a script for the third film and it had been despatched to Cage.
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