After the release of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Disney suggested they wanted to get a fifth movie into production as quickly as possible. However with Johnny Depp and producer Jerry Bruckheimer busy with Lone Raner, Pirates 5 has slightly been on the back burner.
However now its gearing up again, with Variety reporting that Jeff Nathanson (Tower Heist) has been hired to work on the screenplay. Back in January 2011, five months before On Stranger Tides was released, Terry Rossio signed up to write the Pirates of the Caribbean 5 screenplay (Rossio co-wrote the first four film with Ted Elliott, who stepped away from the fifth adventure). It isn’t known if Jeff Nathanson is starting from scratch, or if he’s working from Terry Rossio’s earlier script.
Nathanson has also worked on the likes of Rush Hour 2, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, Rush Hour 3, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Johnny Depp has loosely agreed to return as Jack Sparrow – as long as the script is good enough.