Margot Robbie's Pirates of the Caribbean movie is still in the works, according to the franchise's producer, despite Robbie recently saying it wasn't.
When asked why Pirates of the Caribbean 6 has been so hard to crack, producer Jerry Bruckheimer told The Hollywood Reporter: "Oh God, they're all hard. I think we're getting very close on that one, too. We have a very good script. We developed two of them — the one with Margot Robbie and one with a younger cast. The Margot Robbie one needs a little more work. The younger cast one is close. Hopefully we'll get both of them."
However, Robbie told Vanity Fair last month: "We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more of a female-led – not totally female-led, but just a different kind of story – which we thought would've been really cool, but I guess they don't want to do it."
When questioned on Robbie's claims, Bruckheimer continued: "It's alive for me. It's alive for Disney. I'm sure she was disappointed it didn't go first – or maybe not because she's very busy, so it might be a blessing to push this a bit. We believe we'll get it made. It's a very strong story."
Birds of Prey writer Christina Hodson is attached to pen the script of the Robbie-led spin-off, while franchise mainstay Ted Elliott and Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin are writing the script for the movie Bruckheimer references with a younger cast.
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