Despite early reservations that his idea was “too weird” for the property, Craig Mazin, the showrunner behind HBO programmes including The Last of Us and Chernobyl, has disclosed that his planned Pirates of the Caribbean revival was approved by Disney. Speaking to the LA Times, he stated, “We pitched it and thought there’s no way they’re buying it, it’s too weird. And they did!”
Together with Ted Elliott, one of the series’ original writers, Mazin started crafting their fresh interpretation of the well-known epic adventure story. They thought Disney would reject their proposal because it was too unorthodox.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) are still on strike, which has hampered the project. Mazin is upbeat despite these difficulties and praises Ted Elliott for writing a “fantastic script.”
Many specifics concerning Craig Mazin’s Pirates of the Caribbean revival are still unknown as of right now.
It’s critical to separate Mazin’s endeavour from the much-discussed Pirates of the Caribbean spinoff starring Margot Robbie. In her own telling of the tale, Robbie had indicated a wish for a more female-centric narrative.
Robbie revealed details about her involvement in an interview with Vanity Fair, saying, “We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more of a female-led—not totally female-led, but just a different kind of story—which we thought would’ve been really cool, but I guess they don’t want to do it.”
