The fifth film in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, releases later this year and co-director, Joachim Rønning, said keeping track of its big backstory was a big challenge in scripting it.
Sprawling mythologies can get more complicated the longer they go and that might be especially true for Pirates of the Caribbean.
Writing even just the first entry in a massive franchise can be a daunting task.
It’s hard to write any movie regardless of size, but bigger ones tend to come with an all new host of challenges — especially if that movie is the fifth in a series.