Good News! Keira Knightley Will Not Do Pirates 4

Keira-Knightley-No-Pirates-4Aside from Spider-Man 3, I think perhaps the worst film of the year (especially when you consider how many advantages it had going for it) may be Pirates of the Caribbean 3. So bad on so many levels… but at least it put the franchise to bed. Such a shame too… the first Pirates film was so amazing.

Anyway, although it took a huge drop in earnings compared to the second Pirates movie, it still made big coin for the studios, so there have still been persistent whispers about a possible Pirates 4. There may still be… but if they do a Pirates 4, at least it will be without one of the major drawbacks from the previous films… Keira Knightley.

Our friends over at Cinematical have this:

At the press junket for Atonement in Manhattan on Tuesday, one brave soul piped up during the roundtables to ask Keira Knightley if she was or was not interested in returning for a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. You may remember that the third one ended on that rather ambiguous note, but then sort of doubled-back with a pretty definitive, boxed-into-a-corner end-credit teaser. Knightley seemed to be ready for this question and had a very definitive answer. She quickly responded, with a tone of sadness and seriousness in her voice, “I can’t imagine doing another one. That was an amazing experience, really was, totally extraordinary, but I think three for me is probably enough.”

Now don’t get me wrong… I have a very healthy respect for Knightley as an actress, but she was not up to her own standard in Pirates 2 or 3, and quite frankly the character itself was horribly annoying and ended up just being in the way. Her and Will (Orlando Bloom) were both dead weight in the last 2 films.

As much as I hated Pirates 3, I would be open to seeing more adventures of Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa minus the dead weight of Bloom and Knightley.

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13 thoughts on “Good News! Keira Knightley Will Not Do Pirates 4

  1. I don’t know what you guys are talking about The third Pirates movie was the best one out of all of them i thought. I’m glad there making a fourth one.
    I just can’t believe there considering a Rocky 7.

  2. You are the only one that makes sense. I’m glad they’re not doing this movie! hello….Pirates of the Caribbean is soooo Johnny Depp’s territory… put more of him!

  3. I agree with everyone that thinks that if they make a pirates 4 it needs to revolve around Jack and Barbossa. Yes, the Will and Elizabeth love crap is getting sooooo old. The story shouldn’t revolve around them. I think a majority of the Pirates fans love the movies so much because Johnny is so funny. I know thats why I love the movies so much.

  4. 1 good 2 great 3 fanstastic!!! and every film is absoulutly hilaureus i’m a huge fan for my 9th birthday i had a pirates one jack sparrow sword toys,are,us coustume and party suplies internet and the films a great party! I’m sad bloom and knightley are not going to be in the fourth one but hey a forth one is great!

    i had iders for the forth film that a pirate tells Elizebeth davy jones is back from the dead and he turns every dead pirate and every person that is dead that was friends with pirates into his crew and servents davy is back because every person that was under that spell thing once there heart has been stabbed they can come back from the dead so elizebeth sets out to find will with her son her son gets kidnapped and is turned into one of davys horrible servents so once elizebeth finds will they go find jack then the big battle for good and evil begins……

  5. I would like to see Knightley do other things, be in other films…I thought she was great in all the Pirates films though. I just didn’t give two stinks about World’s End as far as story goes.

    Bloom was okay, but if there is a Pirates 4, I would rather Sparrow and/or Barbarosa have new adventures…with some new characters…because the Turner arc is closed.

    Have them go against….Captain Hook?
    I’m sorry, it’s late, I had a long day…

  6. They should make a rule that should stop studios from making more than three movies. By the third movie, the characters and locations just get so old and there is nothing they can do to revive it. Just look at Lethal Weapon 4….Jet Li? Babies? Ouch.

  7. Hey, Kristina – chill out girl. Switch to decaf or something. You sound just like a f*cking preteen girl.

    I agree with DarkKinger, 1 was great, 2 was good, 3 was ok. The problem is that the first movie was great and the sequels dissapointed a lot of people mainly because they were messy, weaker and unnecessary. That’s why people tend to consider them worse than they actually are, when in fact they were not so bad. The second movie was a really good comedy and some of the scenes were pure comedic brilliance. The third one, despite all its flaws, was still a fun movie. You just have to take them for what they are.

  8. I got Pirates 3 on DVD yesterday. 1 is great, 2 was good, but 3 was ok for me. What I’m saying is each sequel really dropped down in quality. I like 2 & 3, but by the 3rd part, I started to really miss more of Jack Sparrow. I don’t know how my reaction would’ve been if I went to the theater, but I’m satisfied getting it on DVD.

    Anyways, WE NEED MORE JACK SPARROW!

  9. I can’t blame Knightley too much for how bad her character turned out. She’s admitted herself that she had no idea what was supposed to be happening in the story at most points (because they didn’t have that……oh what’s that helpful movie tool called……oh yeah, a script), and she wasn’t happy with her performance either.

    The worst thing about Pirates 3 is that Disney have only, just barely, made profit on the film because of the absurd final production cost. When a film grosses nearly a billion dollars but is barely profitable, something is fucked up.

    That said, i am game for part 4 as long as its Jack, Barbossa, and a great new villain (like Chow Yun Fat, which is why it’s such bullshit for him to have been wasted like he was in Pirates 3) all having a fast, fun, grand adventure while they race for some treasure. I mean, that’s why Pirates 3 sucked; it forgot to be fun. A film based on a theme park ride forgot to be entertaining.

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