Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow is truly the face of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and making a film without his iconic character would be a huge risk for Disney.
The 60-year-old star was originally set to return to Pirates 6 before the company let him go after his ex-wife Amber Heard filed a domestic violence complaint, which he denied.
It looks like Captain Jack Sparrow may not be back in action! According to reports, the superstar is absent from the sixth installment of the franchise titled ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. Entertainment giant is considering actress Ayo Edebiri to replace Depp. Her character will be called Anne. The work is based on the life of Anne Bonny, a 17th-century pirate.
Anne Bonny (late 17th century – disappeared after 28 November 1720), sometimes Ann Fulford, was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates in recorded history. What little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson’s 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates.
Ayo Edebiri is an American actress, comedian, and television writer. She has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear since 2022, for which she has won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Edebiri has also served as a writer and voice actor on Big Mouth since 2020 and has written for the comedy series What We Do in the Shadows in 2022. In 2023, she voiced roles in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and had starring roles in the comedy films Theater Camp and Bottoms.
Jack Sparrow fans are heartbroken. The news did not sit well with “Pirates of the Caribbean” fans.
Commenting on the post, Tesla CEO Elon Musk retweeted: “Disney sucks.”
Some fans think that Bonny is a red-haired Irish girl, and the cast of Edebiri, who is Nigerian, is a disaster. Some have criticized Disney for “blacking out” (displacing black people from Caucasian history). “@Disney has a very low opinion of black people. They often portray them as historical white people, and one black nation they decided to make a movie that doesn’t really exist. I call it Wakanda politics,” another X user wrote.
“Anne Bonny is a wonderful Irish woman, a historical figure who is loved by many Irish people. It would be a mistake to give this job to a non-Irish woman! Well, another movie ‘going to ruin’ – many will dismiss it just because of bad casting,” lamented another.
According to a report from Collider, Disney executives are planning to produce more films featuring women in leading roles.
