Now there are rumblings that Disney is planning on rebooting the franchise with a new cast of characters, which will not include Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
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The truth is, movies about pirates have traditionally not done well in Hollywood, and the Pirates of the Caribbean series was the one, very lucrative exception.
While the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise enjoyed a great deal of popularity at one point, the series has fallen off the radar a bit in recent times.