The door’s being kept open for Johnny Depp’s return to Pirates Of The Caribbean, with two different versions of the script reportedly being developed.

When you have a producer like Jerry Bruckheimer backing you up, things are never a lost cause, it seems. When Johnny Depp was fired by Disney after allegations of spousal abuse, he vowed never to work with the studio again. It seemed like his time as the face of The Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise was over.

Indeed, the series itself appeared to be over for a while there, but Jerry Bruckheimer has been actively developing two new films for some time now. One features Margot Robbie in the lead while another is based on a script written by The Last Of Us co-writer, Craig Mazin, who intriguingly labelled the story as ‘weird’.

As Mazin once said, “[We] thought there’s no way they’re buying it,...