Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie has revealed that plans for her to lead a Pirates of the Caribbean outing have been scrapped.

Robbie said work had stopped on the planned "Pirates" film because Disney didn’t want to move forward with it. She’d been working on the film with writer Christina Hodson, who penned the script for Robbie’s Harley Quinn flick, "Birds of Prey".

"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," Robbie told Vanity Fair about her intended "Pirates" movie with Disney. "But I guess they don’t want to do it."

The last audiences saw of the hugely successful Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was back in 2017’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which is led by Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. At the time, the plan was to quickly shoot a sixth installment, with the intention to wrap up the series and the journey of Jack Sparrow which began all those years ago in 2003.

The future of the franchise is unclear at this point. During the defamation trial between Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard, Depp testified that Disney cut ties with him after Heard published her 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she described herself as a victim of domestic abuse, though she didn't mention Depp by name.

Source: Press Release