Well, shockingly, you’d be wrong: News just got out that Depp had rejected an early draft of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales script because its villain was a woman.
My version of ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ was set aside because it featured a female villain, and Johnny Depp was worried that would be redundant to “Dark Shadows,” which also featured a female villain.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales hits theaters May 26.
Plus, Dark Shadows isn’t anywhere near the Pirates series, aside from the fact that Depp is in both of them.