Johnny Depp Rejected an Early Draft of the Upcoming ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ - And It All Had To Do With DS

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Johnny Depp Rejected an Early Draft of the Upcoming ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Sequel Because it Had a Female Villain

Interesting. Check out the article...

[Uncle Roger]

I don't quite follow the logic there. Plenty of other movies have had female villains, both before and after, Dark Shadows.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was going to say something when I posted the topic, but then I decided to see if anyone else would bring it up, so thanks.

The thing is, people do male antagonist films all the time and most often do them back to back, so what's the difference?

Although, if you're Johnny Depp, critics are just looking for something to jump all over. And to that point, I could be misremembering but I believe the initial draft of POTC5 was worked on back when DS hadn't actually come out yet. Plus, it was originally supposed to go into production long before it did, so all these years between DS and POTC5 wouldn't have taken place. So, maybe Depp was afraid that they were going to say he was repeating himself...

[Uncle Roger]

If I were Mr. Depp, I would be a bit more concerned about doing yet another quirky, dysfunctional character in pasty white makeup than I would be about what other actors might be doing.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Well, obviously that's not a thought that ever has or probably ever will pop into Depp's head!! 

[Uncle Roger]

Very true, though perhaps it should.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Although, if one wants to play devil's advocate, for the most part Depp's quirky and dysfunctional roles are the ones that have brought him his greatest success. When he does a film like Public Enemies or Black Mass it's never as successful. Go figure...

[Gerard]

I'm one of the only three people left on Earth that has never seen any of the PotC movies. 

Gerard