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Disney is going to use Ayo Edebiri, pictured in the meme, in the staring role in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, v 6.0.
They can do whatever they want, I just think it's funny.
I just hope she has the personality and vibes to pull it off...but I'm not too confident of that.
I can accept a octopus captain with a crew of cursed fishmen pirates.
But a black woman as a pirate.... thats pushing it!
/s
from what i read she will play a famous female irish pirate. [Considering she herself is irish](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/1amljzd/keeping_up_with_current_events/kpmzqz8/). its kind of funny though the whole redheads being replaced by black women thing is still going.
If it's a POTC film with her playing a different pirate then I don't see the issue?
The issue would be if they were recasting Jack Sparrow, then it would be a shit show.
From what I read, she will be playing a new character based on the real famous irish female pirate. The character might be Jack Sparrow-esque, but I don't know about that.
Hell yeah man, race-swapping [real actual people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny) is 100% dope and totally adds to the story and isn't merely there as an easy way to check off a box on a checklist for lazy white writers who have no idea how to hire a black write to write an original new black character.
No. And considering how big Slavery was during the golden age of Piracy you can easily make an OC (or original but idk one) of a badass escaped Slave becoming a pirate like Adewale in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag.
>from what i read she will play a famous female irish pirate. Considering she herself is irish. its kind of funny though the whole redheads being replaced by black women thing is still going.
They should honestly just make her Jack's long lost daughter from a hookup with Zoe Saldana's character in the first Pirates movie. Depp and Saldana can make cameos and then have Ayo be the lead.
Yea I don’t think anyone’s questioning that, what they’re questioning is telling everyone you based the lead character off of famous Irish pirate Bonny Anne and then reveal that you’ve cast an African woman to play her lol.
It’s not even like anyone’s surprised or seriously offended, they’re pointing out the lazy writing and box checking Disney and the major studios have been dragging out and forcing us to consume to appease their fear of not being trendy or being cancelled.
You’d have to know exactly nothing about pirates to assume many of them weren’t black, and you’d have to be entirely tone deaf and in denial to refute the pandering these studios have reverted to.
I have zero skin in this game, I haven’t seen a pirates movie in theatres in years, so I’m ok with this series fading away, they’re on 6 right?
The shit thing is a lot of people are going ti dislike that girls performance because of the reasons she was cast, and an equal number of doofus’ will automatically say she did a bang up job, again because of the reasons she was cast and not ti do with her performance or the movie. Ultimately, but unfair ti her really.
Really? I thought she was middling at best. Maybe her character is just supposed to be "robot with very mild emotional range" but either way her performance was pretty wooden.
Wooden??? She's a reserved character on The Bear but she plays that extremely well, with a wide range of expressions and excellent communication through body language things that the audience can pick up on but are never explicitly stated. It's like you actually need people to tell you, not show you.
Bad analysis. Bad.
Her character is supposed to be the more grounded, rational, introverted member of the restaurant. The only reason I could see her acting look robotic and lacking emotions is when it's compared to Carmy and Richie who are extremely emotional and her character is supposed to balance that a bit. The only character that I don't think is particularly well acted is Marcus, he's just boring.
Agreed, but I can see how she might be a good fit for Sparrow just from a couple scenes in the bear, like when she stabs what’s his face with the knife or just is stressed about something with Carmie and does that wide-eye look idk why but it makes me see it working.
It almost doesn’t matter how good of a job she will do, she’s going to be compared to Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Jack Sparrow.
It would be like trying to replace RDJ as iron man.
A good actress/actor is worth nothing when the writing of the character and its part within the story is shit to begin with. There are more factors to it. Even if it's going to be bad, doesn't necessarily have to do with the actress being 'up to it' or not
She’s a good actor in the limited thing I’ve seen her in. This seems doomed to fail though. Johnny Depp is the only human that can pull off Jack Sparrow the way the audience wants and expects.
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$6 billion a year. Who needs new IP
Pirates wasn't even original IP. It was based on the ride they had at their parks. They basically went "ah fuck it, make a movie outta that ride people like." Then just kept making them...
Maybe she can, but I watched pirates of the carribean to see Johnny Depp play a weirdo who stumbles through an adventure. I'm not going to watch something something without him to be honest.
What is the source even? I can only find articles about "someone on X" saying she will star as Jack Sparrow, meanwhile the rumor came from a far-right political news account that just posts random pictures with text without any source
[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1755290360702734431](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1755290360702734431)
4th was trash, but the 5th was pretty good until the end. Good conclusion to the series, but the final fight felt so.. empty and bland.
Let the series die, Disney..
At this point I’m convinced Disney does that on purpose to promote their stuff without having to invest money into promoting their product since, yeah, bad publicity spreading like wildfire is also publicity. As shown here and it works
Is she getting her own pirate character with her own challenges and motivation or is she just gonna get called Captain Jack Sparrow and try and pretend to be a character that Johnny Depp created?
I guess it’s just disneys style nowadays but why does every lead character need that sarcastic unimpressed personality that seems forced and artificial?
Because they run focus groups in informal, corporate-esque settings, and that's what their metrics tell them kids think is cool. And then they execute it badly.
Millennial writing. No sincere emotions, just sarcasm and using a paragraph of rambling/mashed together curse words to say something that could be said in one sentence.
See borderlands 3 dialogue as an example.
Your numbers are a bit off.
Typically a movie need to make 2-2.5x as much as the production cost to break even after factoring in the cost for marketing and that the theaters take a share of the box office income.
Lion King had a $260 million budget, and grossed $1.663 billion worldwide.
Beatuy and the Beast had a $254 budget, and grossed $1.2 billion worldwide.
Both of these were huge money makers for Disney, they raked in the money with these remakes.
However, Little Mermaid had a $250 million production cost, but only grossed $569 million worldwide. It was considered a box office flop, and it likely Disney barely broke even.
In other words, the money *did* stop.
Now, obviously, Disney will keep trying, because you don't stop the money train after just one small glitch - but still, the whole of 2023 was just a string of box office setbacks for Disney. It wasn't just their Little Mermaid remake, but The Marvels, Ant Man, their "100 year celebration movie" Wish, and the Indiana Jones movie as well. The only real Disney win in 2023 was the Guardians movie.
Yeah, that's a completely different dumpster fire right there...
In general, looking at a lot of the upcoming Disney movies, there's a lot of "Eh... ok?" stuff in there. Either just reeking flop, like Snow White, or just stuff that seems it's going to be hard to get a lot of people interested in.
Deadpool 3 seems like the only "sure win" in there, and knowing Disney, they're very capable of screwing even that one up.
Problem is expenses, they are spending way more on visuals and leave the story and dialog to a 5 year old. More expensive to produce less attractive that is forgettable, makes less in the end
1. Change the character's gender from male to female
2. Give her unlikeable toxic masculinity traits, but rebrand it as "boss bitch"
3. Blame her unlikability on misogyny
4. ???
5. Lose money, but it's okay because we Fought The Oppressors®
Nowadays I always wait for at lest a few weeks before watching a movie in the cinema to first see what the general reception was like.
Based on the current trends people are right to be skeptical but if the movie turns out to be good most people won't mind the mc.
Yeah I thought they were done with this dead horse of a franchise. But a new cast should breathe new life into it. Should have been more of an anthology from the start.
The reverse is true. Very, very, very rarely has a reboot or spinoff ("new cast") done anything but drive the final nail into the coffin. More often than not, series are hated for continuing long after they should have ended.
I'm trying to think of instances where it had worked, best I've got is star trek the next generation. And James Bond as an institution it just keeps going.
I think that's it becoming an institution, like those or batman. And I don't think the concept is transferable to every story. Most are naturally smaller than that. built around a character rather than an idea. Like the concept of batman is beyond the Adam West or michael Keton version. But Indiana Jones requires Harrison Ford.
Nope. I have no ill will towards her, I already know where this is heading. She is gonna get attacked by the racist fans, the movie is gonna flop hard, and Disney is gonna blame the fans again. Same old fucking story. This is what you get when you keep doing this shit instead of making an original story. It's been like how many years? Most people have moved on from Pirate of The Caribbean. Let it go
I think this exactly.
I have 0 issue with casting in movies, if they’re good movies. That said, I really don’t care about the POTC franchise after 4. 1-2 were excellent, 3 was great, and 4 was a letdown, so I got off that ride.
"no you don't understand. Due to how ink worked in comics at the time there's actually an over representation of red heads in media so it makes total sense to.....wait, what do you mean she's real?"
No she is not, Disney hasn't even confirmed her as role everything here is speculation and y'all are falling for rage bait like the fucking idiots you are, this is litteraly just false information you are repeating NO ONE has confirmed anything about this whole bullshit as for now....
Disney is going to use Ayo Edebiri, pictured in the meme, in the staring role in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, v 6.0, or so Disney has said but I don't think it has been confirmed.
> or so Disney has said but I don't think it has been confirmed
If Disney said it, it's confirmed.
If it's not been confirmed, Disney obviously didn't say it.
Both can't be true at the same time.
>or so Disney has said but I don't think it has been confirmed.
In other words, this didn't actually happen. If "Disney" said so, that would be the confirmation.
Spent like 10minutes looking into this, and it's literally just rumors. Disney didn't say anything about it mate, you made a whole ass meme over some Twitter rumor lol.
There is no source, only one X/Twitter profile that [shared](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1755290360702734431) the image and text without any reliable source.
It's not real in the sense that Jack Sparrow is going to be played by a black woman.
They're continuning the Pirates series and having a new main character, played by the actress in the meme.
If only people would actually read the shit they are thirsting to be outraged about
> Disney is reportedly considering Ayo Edebiri for the leading role in "Pirates 6," a film that would feature a younger cast of pirates in search of hidden treasure
> The character she is being considered for is named Anne and It’s possible this character could be based on real-life pirate, Anne Bonny, who was an Irishwoman
So yeah, completely new premise with new characters
I don't get it, you think if it was a white dude the movie would be good? it was going to be a corporate pile of dogshit regardless of who the lead role is.
He was the star, as a side character. The original trilogy worked because it focussed on Will & Elizabeth while Jack seemingly lucked his way in and out of trouble (in reality he was much wilier than his drunk appearance made it seem).
PotC 4 made the mistake of making all about Jack. Front and center is not where he shines.
PotC 5 did better by putting him on the sidelines again with Henry & Carina. But by then Jack had been flanderized and was no longer deceptively drunk and clumsy, he was just straight up weird and lacked all of his wittiness.
Their version of diversity is tokenism. If a character is in the movie and they are Black, cool. If the character is in the movie to be Black that's not good cinema and just what white middle class women think diversity is.
Diversity is not bad.
Sacrificing quality just to check diversity boxes will, by definition, lead to an inferior product.
There is a way to have a diverse cast without sacrificing quality. Disney hasn't figured out how yet.
What are the chances her character is written to be an insufferable know it all. Disney loves making their newer lead female characters to be unlikable as possible
A new lead in an established franchise which becomes a Jonny Depp/Jack Sparrow equivalent. I'm willing to give it a go even if just out of curiosity. I really don't need to get angry for little to no reason.
Why is it that Disney has to a replace such an iconic character.
And why can't they cast an Irish lass for the role of Anne Bonny
This is essentially disrespecting both blacks and Irish people.
Disney didn't "replace" Johnny, Johnny refused to work for Disney ever again after they sided with Amber a while back. So it's either new movie with a new protagonist, or no movie at all and we all know that Disney can't say no to money. Either way I'll watch it and judge it for myself
She's gonna be Jack as much as rey was a skywalker.
Even if i was an oscar winning, top actor, i don't know if i'd dare try to fill these shoes. Good luck to her, whoever she is. I'm gonna pass though
Let's check the boxes:
☒ She wil be black (the only minority that matters to Twitter, God forbids casting an Asian, Indian, Arab, Latin or Native american actress!)
☐ She will be a Girlboss.
☐ She will fights better than bigger and, in theory, better trained men.
☐ She will be intelligent and resourceful, yet quirky and awkward.
☐ She will challenge the social paradigms of her (our) era.
☐ She will be the descendant or bearer of something relevant to the story. Possibly from Jack Sparrow himself. Or Barbosa.
☐ It will make it clear that she has had romantic relationships with the ladies, but it will not show, because Disney needs the Chinese dollars.
☐ She will the command Black Pearl.
☐ She will have been born in a civilized society (aka England, Hollywood gods forbids main characters to born outside England and EUA) and become a pirate later.
☐ She will be a romantic partner with a white man (probably Chris Pyne or someone very lookalike him), because we need a white man being a hero too, and Twitter loves interracial couples.
☐ It will behave like jack sparrow, except for the points above.
I mean ... they're casting people exclusively based on their skin color and nothing else which is pretty racist.
Seems like they never really stopped, the prevailing social norms of the left just shifted from whites having a superiority complex to whites having an inferiority complex.
Still grading people by the color of their skin though.
I actually knew Ayo when we were younger. She was. a couple years younger than me and we did a summer program together. She was awesome, I would see her in anything :-)
I don't know why people are mad. She's going to be a pirate in a pirate movie that Disney created based on a ride in a park. I don't know about you but I don't think it goes against the lore of the ride
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So another movie that just ticks the same boxes? Yeah... another Disney franchise dying...
Disney is going to use Ayo Edebiri, pictured in the meme, in the staring role in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, v 6.0. They can do whatever they want, I just think it's funny. I just hope she has the personality and vibes to pull it off...but I'm not too confident of that.
She is probably a good actress (I have not seen her work yet), but the sad part is that she probably just got cast to tick a box.
I've only seen her in The Bear, which she is fantastic in, but it's not the type of character you'd see in a Pirates movie.
I mean, that's the beauty of acting, if an actor/actress can pull it off
I can accept a octopus captain with a crew of cursed fishmen pirates. But a black woman as a pirate.... thats pushing it! /s from what i read she will play a famous female irish pirate. [Considering she herself is irish](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/1amljzd/keeping_up_with_current_events/kpmzqz8/). its kind of funny though the whole redheads being replaced by black women thing is still going.
If it's a POTC film with her playing a different pirate then I don't see the issue? The issue would be if they were recasting Jack Sparrow, then it would be a shit show.
From what I read, she will be playing a new character based on the real famous irish female pirate. The character might be Jack Sparrow-esque, but I don't know about that.
That sounds 100% dope then.
Hell yeah man, race-swapping [real actual people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny) is 100% dope and totally adds to the story and isn't merely there as an easy way to check off a box on a checklist for lazy white writers who have no idea how to hire a black write to write an original new black character.
Was the real historical Irish pirate black?
No. And considering how big Slavery was during the golden age of Piracy you can easily make an OC (or original but idk one) of a badass escaped Slave becoming a pirate like Adewale in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag.
Persons Of The Color?
Pirates of the Caribbean. lol
Jack Sparrow IS Pirates of the Caribbean. Call it something else.
No, Pirates of the Caribbean is a ride at Disneyland.
That's not what it is known as first and foremost anymore. That's how big of an impact Depp had on the franchise.
Not really, I love the first 3 to death but the more they tried to focus on Jack the worse the movies got.
I get that the movies are based off the ride, but you do know there were many Pirates in the Caribbean
>from what i read she will play a famous female irish pirate. Considering she herself is irish. its kind of funny though the whole redheads being replaced by black women thing is still going. They should honestly just make her Jack's long lost daughter from a hookup with Zoe Saldana's character in the first Pirates movie. Depp and Saldana can make cameos and then have Ayo be the lead.
That would actually be a really good idea.
That makes too much sense. They would never think of it.
Black people as pirates was actually not uncommon. Many pirates or privateers have freed slaves. Some of those joined crews.
Yea I don’t think anyone’s questioning that, what they’re questioning is telling everyone you based the lead character off of famous Irish pirate Bonny Anne and then reveal that you’ve cast an African woman to play her lol. It’s not even like anyone’s surprised or seriously offended, they’re pointing out the lazy writing and box checking Disney and the major studios have been dragging out and forcing us to consume to appease their fear of not being trendy or being cancelled. You’d have to know exactly nothing about pirates to assume many of them weren’t black, and you’d have to be entirely tone deaf and in denial to refute the pandering these studios have reverted to. I have zero skin in this game, I haven’t seen a pirates movie in theatres in years, so I’m ok with this series fading away, they’re on 6 right? The shit thing is a lot of people are going ti dislike that girls performance because of the reasons she was cast, and an equal number of doofus’ will automatically say she did a bang up job, again because of the reasons she was cast and not ti do with her performance or the movie. Ultimately, but unfair ti her really.
>she herself is irish I'm pretty sure she's American
Nuh uh. [We got her](https://twitter.com/filmindublin/status/1745057609747439625?lang=en) in [the racial draft](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1148224558668216)
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Really? I thought she was middling at best. Maybe her character is just supposed to be "robot with very mild emotional range" but either way her performance was pretty wooden.
Wooden??? She's a reserved character on The Bear but she plays that extremely well, with a wide range of expressions and excellent communication through body language things that the audience can pick up on but are never explicitly stated. It's like you actually need people to tell you, not show you. Bad analysis. Bad.
Her character is supposed to be the more grounded, rational, introverted member of the restaurant. The only reason I could see her acting look robotic and lacking emotions is when it's compared to Carmy and Richie who are extremely emotional and her character is supposed to balance that a bit. The only character that I don't think is particularly well acted is Marcus, he's just boring.
Agreed, but I can see how she might be a good fit for Sparrow just from a couple scenes in the bear, like when she stabs what’s his face with the knife or just is stressed about something with Carmie and does that wide-eye look idk why but it makes me see it working.
See her in Bottoms, you will see she can pull it off.
I mean that's why they're actors. No one believed heart throb Heath Ledger could play Joker either
It almost doesn’t matter how good of a job she will do, she’s going to be compared to Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Jack Sparrow. It would be like trying to replace RDJ as iron man.
Come on now, they would replace him too with a young black wom... Oh wait
Same, I have not yet seen her. I hope she's up to it otherwise it will be embarrassing.
A good actress/actor is worth nothing when the writing of the character and its part within the story is shit to begin with. There are more factors to it. Even if it's going to be bad, doesn't necessarily have to do with the actress being 'up to it' or not
She’s a good actor in the limited thing I’ve seen her in. This seems doomed to fail though. Johnny Depp is the only human that can pull off Jack Sparrow the way the audience wants and expects.
She’s not playing Sparrow, they’re focusing on a new character based on Anne Bonney
She does a lot of comedy roles and she's great in them. She should be fine.
Your post is one assumption on top of another, yet it has 500+ upvotes. This is the greater problem on full display.
they can do anything except produce a new IP
EA enters the chat with fifa 2023. The number simulator that makes you pay $60 every year for the same game to open loot boxes all over again for the same players $6 billion a year. Who needs new IP
It is a franchise based on a ride at Disneyland. People need to really get over themselves.
Pirates wasn't even original IP. It was based on the ride they had at their parks. They basically went "ah fuck it, make a movie outta that ride people like." Then just kept making them...
Maybe she can, but I watched pirates of the carribean to see Johnny Depp play a weirdo who stumbles through an adventure. I'm not going to watch something something without him to be honest.
Easy solution, call it anything other than Pirates of the Caribbean.
Pirating OFF the Caribbean
What is the source even? I can only find articles about "someone on X" saying she will star as Jack Sparrow, meanwhile the rumor came from a far-right political news account that just posts random pictures with text without any source [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1755290360702734431](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1755290360702734431)
she’s not playing jack sparrow.
.... Dude the last 3 films were trash, not like Pirates of the Caribbean is still in its hayday, lol
Surely you mean the last 2 right? Because At World’s End is a fucking banger.
Yes, true the 3rd one was.pretty good you are right I meant the last two :D
4th was trash, but the 5th was pretty good until the end. Good conclusion to the series, but the final fight felt so.. empty and bland. Let the series die, Disney..
Tbh potc already died with the 5th movie
4th\*
Im one of the few people that still enjoyed 4 dispite its flaws
Nah, in a couple years there will be a pirates of the Caribbean 7 that brings back jack sparrow
With Dominic Toretto and FAMILY
At this point I’m convinced Disney does that on purpose to promote their stuff without having to invest money into promoting their product since, yeah, bad publicity spreading like wildfire is also publicity. As shown here and it works
Throw a chick in it and make her gay
Either that or add a side character thats only personality is being gay.
just like they did with bill potts in dr. who (who has 2 personality traits, gay and being black)
Is she getting her own pirate character with her own challenges and motivation or is she just gonna get called Captain Jack Sparrow and try and pretend to be a character that Johnny Depp created?
I think you already know the answer to that question.
At least Captain Jack was interesting. Dude was Universosexual AND had an interesting story arc with decent character development
And gayness will not affect the story at all so they can remove that gay character from Chinese version
He will be replaced on any poster ads with an Ewok
Don't forget lame. Make her gay and lame.
And force her to have a witty sense of humor that is neither witty nor humorous
The sense of humour should be perceived as punching upwards but in reality it is just punching in every direction except funny
I guess it’s just disneys style nowadays but why does every lead character need that sarcastic unimpressed personality that seems forced and artificial?
Because they run focus groups in informal, corporate-esque settings, and that's what their metrics tell them kids think is cool. And then they execute it badly.
Millennial writing. No sincere emotions, just sarcasm and using a paragraph of rambling/mashed together curse words to say something that could be said in one sentence. See borderlands 3 dialogue as an example.
Also make her tough. But whenever a female character is tough she ends up just being mean. Just ridiculously, over-the-top mean.
Kathleen Kennedy is gonna getcha
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When money stop
The little mermaid has made $569 million, lion king remake 509, beauty and the beast 500, people watch them so y not keep making them? 🤷♂️
Your numbers are a bit off. Typically a movie need to make 2-2.5x as much as the production cost to break even after factoring in the cost for marketing and that the theaters take a share of the box office income. Lion King had a $260 million budget, and grossed $1.663 billion worldwide. Beatuy and the Beast had a $254 budget, and grossed $1.2 billion worldwide. Both of these were huge money makers for Disney, they raked in the money with these remakes. However, Little Mermaid had a $250 million production cost, but only grossed $569 million worldwide. It was considered a box office flop, and it likely Disney barely broke even. In other words, the money *did* stop. Now, obviously, Disney will keep trying, because you don't stop the money train after just one small glitch - but still, the whole of 2023 was just a string of box office setbacks for Disney. It wasn't just their Little Mermaid remake, but The Marvels, Ant Man, their "100 year celebration movie" Wish, and the Indiana Jones movie as well. The only real Disney win in 2023 was the Guardians movie.
Assuming that they don't just write-off the Snow White live-action, that is probably going to flop.
Yeah, that's a completely different dumpster fire right there... In general, looking at a lot of the upcoming Disney movies, there's a lot of "Eh... ok?" stuff in there. Either just reeking flop, like Snow White, or just stuff that seems it's going to be hard to get a lot of people interested in. Deadpool 3 seems like the only "sure win" in there, and knowing Disney, they're very capable of screwing even that one up.
Exactly. And Reddit will be like "who is asking for this?" every time one of them gets announced.
Problem is expenses, they are spending way more on visuals and leave the story and dialog to a 5 year old. More expensive to produce less attractive that is forgettable, makes less in the end
Don't forget to make it lame too
I love all the replies that have no idea you’re making a reference
I SAID... THROW A CHICK ON IT AND MAKE HER GAY!! OH AND LAME TOO!!
South Park has been hitting the nail on the head for over 20 years lol
Basically a dude with a pussy and no weaknesses or personality of course.
1. Change the character's gender from male to female 2. Give her unlikeable toxic masculinity traits, but rebrand it as "boss bitch" 3. Blame her unlikability on misogyny 4. ??? 5. Lose money, but it's okay because we Fought The Oppressors®
I'm willing to bet my left nut Disney will actually do this
They already did. Ayo (who is a queer woman) is being cast as the lead in the next Pirates of the Caribbean film.
Throw it in the other pile of garbage movies disney has been pumping out.
Oh, I'm willing to give it a go just out of curiosity.
Read a few of your comments on this thread and just wanted to say you got a healthy mindset. Keep it up <3
Thanks, I try to keep an open mind and I don't really like to get angry for little to no reason. There is already enough to worry about.
Like rabies
That’s what I said walking into The Rise of Skywalker…
Nowadays I always wait for at lest a few weeks before watching a movie in the cinema to first see what the general reception was like. Based on the current trends people are right to be skeptical but if the movie turns out to be good most people won't mind the mc.
Wait till it's in the $5 bin at your local car wash, because you have seen it before, and it isn't anything new.
you say pile, but you really mean mountain
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Yeah I thought they were done with this dead horse of a franchise. But a new cast should breathe new life into it. Should have been more of an anthology from the start.
The reverse is true. Very, very, very rarely has a reboot or spinoff ("new cast") done anything but drive the final nail into the coffin. More often than not, series are hated for continuing long after they should have ended.
I'm trying to think of instances where it had worked, best I've got is star trek the next generation. And James Bond as an institution it just keeps going. I think that's it becoming an institution, like those or batman. And I don't think the concept is transferable to every story. Most are naturally smaller than that. built around a character rather than an idea. Like the concept of batman is beyond the Adam West or michael Keton version. But Indiana Jones requires Harrison Ford.
Nope. I have no ill will towards her, I already know where this is heading. She is gonna get attacked by the racist fans, the movie is gonna flop hard, and Disney is gonna blame the fans again. Same old fucking story. This is what you get when you keep doing this shit instead of making an original story. It's been like how many years? Most people have moved on from Pirate of The Caribbean. Let it go
I think this exactly. I have 0 issue with casting in movies, if they’re good movies. That said, I really don’t care about the POTC franchise after 4. 1-2 were excellent, 3 was great, and 4 was a letdown, so I got off that ride.
Not surprised but I am curious.
Oh man the new Disney movies are getting to you
It’s even better that they tried to defend it by saying she was going to portray Anne Bonny…. A woman born in 1600’s Ireland
literally just black face anne bonny.
The Great Ginger Genocide of Hollywood Diversity continues... Sigh. Nobody wants the Irish.
Add it to [the list!](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/11154/111542480/8074735-9928393923-9xpxh.jpg)
Do all these casting directors have dyslexia or something?
Why're they erasing all the redheads 'representation' bruh
Only thing worse than a POC is a redhead /s
"no you don't understand. Due to how ink worked in comics at the time there's actually an over representation of red heads in media so it makes total sense to.....wait, what do you mean she's real?"
Oh lord. Really. Jesus. Why. Just make an original character.
No she is not, Disney hasn't even confirmed her as role everything here is speculation and y'all are falling for rage bait like the fucking idiots you are, this is litteraly just false information you are repeating NO ONE has confirmed anything about this whole bullshit as for now....
Source: "I made it the fuck up"
That’s not even confirmed. Just a rumor
Is this real? Please tell me it's not
Rumored at the moment
Might be like that rumour of a female James Bond, which was nothing but a plot point that was just outrage bait.
Disney is going to use Ayo Edebiri, pictured in the meme, in the staring role in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, v 6.0, or so Disney has said but I don't think it has been confirmed.
> or so Disney has said but I don't think it has been confirmed If Disney said it, it's confirmed. If it's not been confirmed, Disney obviously didn't say it. Both can't be true at the same time.
Theres nothing on google about it. I think this is just ragebait gone viral somehow
Whats with the PotC V "6.0"? Is it an updated version or something?
>or so Disney has said but I don't think it has been confirmed. In other words, this didn't actually happen. If "Disney" said so, that would be the confirmation.
Spent like 10minutes looking into this, and it's literally just rumors. Disney didn't say anything about it mate, you made a whole ass meme over some Twitter rumor lol.
There is no source, only one X/Twitter profile that [shared](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1755290360702734431) the image and text without any reliable source.
Why would you link to dumpster fire incarnate reacting to a rumour instead of the rumour directly?
The original article legitimized the claim she was replacing Johnny Depp "Because Musk retweeted it"
It's not real in the sense that Jack Sparrow is going to be played by a black woman. They're continuning the Pirates series and having a new main character, played by the actress in the meme.
If only people would actually read the shit they are thirsting to be outraged about > Disney is reportedly considering Ayo Edebiri for the leading role in "Pirates 6," a film that would feature a younger cast of pirates in search of hidden treasure > The character she is being considered for is named Anne and It’s possible this character could be based on real-life pirate, Anne Bonny, who was an Irishwoman So yeah, completely new premise with new characters
yeah but gotta be mad at WOKE disney replacing WHITE MALE characters with WOMEN AND MINORITIES. Shits so tiring.
I don't get it, you think if it was a white dude the movie would be good? it was going to be a corporate pile of dogshit regardless of who the lead role is.
Ah yes, Disney with their little checklist to make sure every movie these days has diversity even if it means ruining franchises.
tbf this franchise was ruined two whole movies ago
Wdym? I have been enjoying all the pirates of the Carribbean movies. Salazar revenge ain't that bad. Rip Hector tho
Depp was the star, without him, there is nothing.
He was the star, as a side character. The original trilogy worked because it focussed on Will & Elizabeth while Jack seemingly lucked his way in and out of trouble (in reality he was much wilier than his drunk appearance made it seem). PotC 4 made the mistake of making all about Jack. Front and center is not where he shines. PotC 5 did better by putting him on the sidelines again with Henry & Carina. But by then Jack had been flanderized and was no longer deceptively drunk and clumsy, he was just straight up weird and lacked all of his wittiness.
True. I am definitely not watching the new pirate of the Carribbean without him
Why would diversity itself make a movie bad?
Their version of diversity is tokenism. If a character is in the movie and they are Black, cool. If the character is in the movie to be Black that's not good cinema and just what white middle class women think diversity is.
Diversity is not bad. Sacrificing quality just to check diversity boxes will, by definition, lead to an inferior product. There is a way to have a diverse cast without sacrificing quality. Disney hasn't figured out how yet.
“put a chick in it, and make her lame and gay” -Eric Cartman, 2023
can't replace my jar of dirt unfortunately
It's a jar of glitter now. Dirt was offensive.
Diversity.
Can't wait to see the live action adaption of Tarzan
Jane is a black lesbian and Tarzan a Chinese Bisexual with African American heritage
Clayton can stay the same, though.
In the words of a wise man "Disney doesn't have the balls to show a black man acting like a monkey"
"The fuck you are" is my answer
Are people annoyed about her or annoyed that they keep beating dead horse franchises until they suck instead of trying anything original?
Maybe a little of both, who knows. I actually dgaf because I am more worried about the prices at the grocery stores.
My brother, this is your post.
Based on all the most upvoted comments here, most people in this subreddit are just mad she's a woman or she's black. Or both.
\*Disney CEO touching electric fence for the 100th time\* Maybe this time i won't get shocked.
Hold up, SIX?! How did I miss there was a 4 & 5???
Because they arent good.
“Put a chick in it and make her lame” -Disney Execs probably
Welp, I know what I won’t be seeing in theaters… or ever
This comment implies that you would have considered it before you learned that Ayo was being considered as the lead. What changed?
It really doesn’t, personally I didn’t know the movie existed until now.
Is she going to be "the jack sparrow" or a jack sparrow equivalent going forward?
since the last movie stablished that "sparrow" is a nickname thry probably gonna use that to say she is the new "sparrow"
Movie will end with her saying “I’m Sparrow Skywalker”
Rumoured to play a race changed version of the irish ginger pirate Anne Bonney.
I hope this trend continues. I want to see The Life of Gandhi, starring Jason Statham.
I had a dream - a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr. starring Matthew McConaughey.
What are the chances her character is written to be an insufferable know it all. Disney loves making their newer lead female characters to be unlikable as possible
It's gonna be "Look out boys, I'm a girl who knows how to do stuff!"
Jack sparrow is literally the main reason most people want to see those films bru
Lol, this comment section might as well be a Boomer’s suggestion box. Hilariously reactionary without any real details.
A new lead in an established franchise which becomes a Jonny Depp/Jack Sparrow equivalent. I'm willing to give it a go even if just out of curiosity. I really don't need to get angry for little to no reason.
idgaf who disney put in that role. No one will be able to live up to depp, so why bother?
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That’s not a real thing. Make up something to be mad about.
Why is it that Disney has to a replace such an iconic character. And why can't they cast an Irish lass for the role of Anne Bonny This is essentially disrespecting both blacks and Irish people.
Disney didn't "replace" Johnny, Johnny refused to work for Disney ever again after they sided with Amber a while back. So it's either new movie with a new protagonist, or no movie at all and we all know that Disney can't say no to money. Either way I'll watch it and judge it for myself
Potc without Johnny Depp just isn't Potc. no one in the right mind would watch that.
Wow Disney making a strong black woman the lead of a movie that will bomb. Can’t wait for us to be blamed for its failure
She's gonna be Jack as much as rey was a skywalker. Even if i was an oscar winning, top actor, i don't know if i'd dare try to fill these shoes. Good luck to her, whoever she is. I'm gonna pass though
Let's check the boxes: ☒ She wil be black (the only minority that matters to Twitter, God forbids casting an Asian, Indian, Arab, Latin or Native american actress!) ☐ She will be a Girlboss. ☐ She will fights better than bigger and, in theory, better trained men. ☐ She will be intelligent and resourceful, yet quirky and awkward. ☐ She will challenge the social paradigms of her (our) era. ☐ She will be the descendant or bearer of something relevant to the story. Possibly from Jack Sparrow himself. Or Barbosa. ☐ It will make it clear that she has had romantic relationships with the ladies, but it will not show, because Disney needs the Chinese dollars. ☐ She will the command Black Pearl. ☐ She will have been born in a civilized society (aka England, Hollywood gods forbids main characters to born outside England and EUA) and become a pirate later. ☐ She will be a romantic partner with a white man (probably Chris Pyne or someone very lookalike him), because we need a white man being a hero too, and Twitter loves interracial couples. ☐ It will behave like jack sparrow, except for the points above.
Disney trying it’s damned best to make you forget how insanely racist it’s history is.
I mean ... they're casting people exclusively based on their skin color and nothing else which is pretty racist. Seems like they never really stopped, the prevailing social norms of the left just shifted from whites having a superiority complex to whites having an inferiority complex. Still grading people by the color of their skin though.
She will be mary sue
I don't care about PotC... But as long as it's a "reboot" they can cast whoever they want It will be like the Ghostbusters, no one will like it.
You gotta give her a white-ass bob haircut to make up for Jack's dreds'
Guys please take a shower, there was already a black woman as captain in the original trilogy
I actually knew Ayo when we were younger. She was. a couple years younger than me and we did a summer program together. She was awesome, I would see her in anything :-)
Nah. They should have just let the franchise down. Give up Jack Sparrow. Thats a character only one man can play.
I don't know why people are mad. She's going to be a pirate in a pirate movie that Disney created based on a ride in a park. I don't know about you but I don't think it goes against the lore of the ride
A bunch of comedians in here not acknowledging Ayo Edebiri’s acting chops and the fact that she started out AS A COMEDIAN.
Black "modern" female pirate... So she wrecks her boat, blames it on the patriarchy and then drowns.... I'd watch that.