Disney will reportedly save about $90 million on the production of the next Pirates of the Caribbean by not having Johnny Depp.

Conversely, they'll probably lose a lot more money in theaters by not having Johnny Depp.

I think I've opened up a bit more to the idea of a Sparrow-less Pirates film. He's said to have been, to put it lightly, a bit of a jerk on the set of Dead Men Tell No Tales. He'd show up hours late to set, and the crew even had to place a spy by his house to check when he was waking up, so the could get ready for shooting. At the same time, the writer of the fifth movie didn't understand Sparrow as well as Elliott and Rossio, I rather wish he'd get a better send-off. I'd prefer he appear in a smaller role than be written off altogether.

Henry and Carina shouldn't appear in the sixth movie. I gotta say, those two characters were just bad.
Did you know that in the original Dead Men Tell No Tales script by Elliott and Rossio, Philip (the pious man from On Stranger Tides) was going to appear as a cartographer, searching for a mermaid cove so he could reunite with Syrena? I'd rather have liked that.

If you don't account for inflation, then Dead Man's Chest was, at release, the most expensive film ever made.
Following that, At World's End was the most expensive film ever made.
Disney then chose to pare back the budget for On Stranger Tides, and to this day, it's the most expensive film ever made.

Adjusting for inflation, just scratch off Dead Man's Chest (which was beaten by Waterworld and Titanic).
I guess it's true what they say. Wet things are expensive.

anyone that wants Pirates of the Caribbean rebooted instead of getting another sequel is a coward
anyone afraid to admit that Pirates of the Caribbean is brilliant is a god damned coward

if you don't love Pirates of the Caribbean you're a coward

Boooooooooooring. Jack Sparrow is perfection, but isn't enough to make the movies worth sitting through for me.