well with 4 exclamation points in a thread title...

this must be exciting news?...

What timing...

Jesus, I hope it's better that the awful excuse of a movie known as Pirates 3.

Hopefully it's better than the last 2!!!

Oh and the Oldboy Remake isn't dead apparently!

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Oldbo...Dead-6500.html

I'll see it but I hope they halt (and reverse) the progressive slide the trilogy made down the tubes.

No Elizabeth and Will is a good sign. Their silly love story was a big problem I had with 3.

Shouldn't this be Pirates 5? At World's End felt like at least two movies.

I too hope its better than Pirates 3.
I say they seriously need to downsize the amount of visual effects if they use if they a fourth film. All the effects they used in Pirates 3 were for the most part just boring and a waste of money. Just get a good compelling story and some sword fighting and johnny Depp. Thats really all you need.

I thought this was old news and discussed immediately around the time Pirates 3 was out?

Besides, isn't there a 15+ year moratorium until 4 can come out? Oh wait, wrong franchise.

Start fresh, bring only johnny back (of the principal cast), make it under 2 hours and have it be fun.

I think a prequel would work. It could show how Sparrow got his compass/map and his ship and the origin of his character.
Maybe a sparrow vs. Blackbeard kinda thing/
And please, for the love of god NO ALIENS.

that article is from September 2007, it's kinda hard to run on news from almost a year ago. I would like to see the remake with possibly Christopher Nolan directing and Christian Bale as the lead. I just think that kind of combo, especially with their present work as well, would do justice for the property.

I liked all the movies about the same, so if Verbinski and Depp are back, I'm sold.

There shouldn't have been a 2 or 3, so a 4 is definitely unwarranted.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Man, I still can't get the bad taste that was 2 and 3 out of my mouth. Terrible terrible films. And the first was **so** good. Such a huge shame.

It was a joke as the article in Groucho's post is almost a year old.

Sounds like panic from Disney since their Narnia movies aren't working out as well as they might have hoped.

Before they work on signing Depp, they should work on signing an EDITOR. Sitting through the last one was like pulling teeth.

I do agree about the length on Prates 3 myself. AND I NEVER complain about movies being too long. I think 1 and 2 are fine the way they are but Pirates 3 could easily have been 30 minutes shorter. Seriously when I say a movie is too long you know it is definitely too long.

I couldn't sit through the last two. Boring and seemingly never-ending. I think I'll pass if they do a 4th.

I liked part 3 more than 2.

Yikes, I guess i'm one of the few that liked both sequels.

You, sir, should lose your moniker, and be banned.

2 was ok, but not nearly as good as the first. 3 was a piece of shit. I'd welcome any sequel that dropped Will and Elizabeth.

Put me in Mr. Cinema's camp. 1, 3, 2 for me. Thought I still hope that this doesn't get greenlit.

Who am I kidding, Pirates is a cashcow. Course it is ...

I hated part 3 in the theater, but I watched it again on DVD a couple of weeks ago and I really enjoyed it.

For my money, the "Davey Jones" effects are far and away the best CGI I've ever seen, and make parts 2 and 3 totally watchable on their own merits. So damn impressive...

I dig the Pirates franchise quite a bit, much more than most recently developed franchises, and look forward to parts 4, 5, and beyond.

So did I.

But looking back on both of them - they sucked compared to the original.