UPDATE: Jerry Bruckheimer has hit Twitter to announce that Scodelario has officially joined the cast. Filming is set to kick off next month.
It may not be sailing into cinemas this year or even next, but **Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales **clearly has the wind in its sails and is gathering up cast members. The latest potential recruit – because she’s still at the “early talks” stage – is The Maze Runner’s Kaya Scodelario.
While almost nothing is concrete about the plot at this point, we do know that Kon-Tiki directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are marshalling together a production that will include Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow (natch), Geoffrey Rush likely as Barbossa, Brenton Thwaites as a dashing British soldier and a murderous ghostly villain named Captain Brand. The likes of Javier Bardem and Christoph Waltz have been approached for that role, but there’s no confirmed casting yet. Orlando Bloom has also gone on record to say there have been discussions about him returning in some form.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is currently aiming for a July 7, 2017 release date. As for Scodelario, she’ll next be seen in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, set to arrive here on September 18.