Disney has been trying to replace Johnny Depp with new actors and develop sequels to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series since Johnny Depp's reputation suffered due to domestic violence accusations from his ex-wife Amber Heard a few years ago.
Currently, Disney has assigned two groups of people to prepare two different new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, one starring Margot Robbie and written by Christina Hodson, while the other is jointly conceived by Ted Elliott and Craig Mazin. Recently, well-known whistleblower Daniel Richtman broke the latest information about the latter.
Richman said that Eliot and Maxine's film originally wanted to cast actress Karen Gillan to play the pirate character "Redhead", but later the plan changed and the new protagonist was changed to a black woman named Annie (possibly just a temporary code name). Disney's current candidate to play Annie is black actress Ayo Edebiri. Richman said that in this new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, there will be all new casts.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" series producer Jerry Bruckheimer (JerryBruckheimer) once said that the two new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies are being made at the same time and neither one has been cancelled. Richman also pointed out this time that Robbie's new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie is also in development.