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Yo Ho, Yo Ho! "Pirates" Sequel a Go!
Hey-ho, me-hearties, better hold on to yer rum and your booty. A sequel is afoot!
Elated with the loot Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl has plundered in just one week at the box office, Disney is already planning to mount a follow-up to the hit swashbuckling adventure based on the classic Disneyland theme-park ride.
As is typical with most big-budget would-be franchises, the studio has existing sequel deals with all the key talent, Disney confirmed to E! Wednesday. That means Johnny Depp is already signed up to reprise his role as charming scalawag Captain Jack Sparrow (a role the actor says he based on the swaggering rock star antics of Rolling Stone Keith Richards).
Also aboard for the sequel are costars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley--respectively, the movie's young-hunk bucanner hero and maiden in distress--as well as the behind-the-scenes team of überproducer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski.
Additionally, Disney says it's currently negotiating with original Pirates scribes Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio (Shrek) about penning another seafaring special-effects-laden extravaganza, though no word yet on a plot. (Here's a guess--it involves ships, pirates and swordplay.)
The studio says a Pirates sequel will ultimately hinge on a workable script. There's no timetable on when the sequel would start production or sail into megaplexes.
Pirates of the Caribbean has managed to do for the pirate picture what Moulin Rouge! and Chicago did for musicals--break a decades-long curse on the genre and revive good ol' fashioned Hollywood heroics not seen since the days of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
Since invading theaters last Wednesday, the PG-13-rated romp has pillaged more than $78 million worth treasure on surprisingly decent reviews (the critic-tracking site Rotten Tomatoes gives it 65 percent "Fresh" score) and is the reigning box-office champ.
Pirates handily beat last week's other new release, the Sean Connery comic book-inspired flick, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which took in a meager $23.1 million.
All we can say is...arghh!
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