The first is the final installment of the current franchise, for which a Will and Elizabeth return would make sense. The confusing part comes in with the realization that there are actually two Pirates of the Caribbean movies in the works. It's been announced that Johnny Depp will not be reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow for Pirates 6 due to his well-known controversies. It's unknown whether Orlando Bloom will return as Will Turner for Pirates of the Caribbean 6, but he and Keira Knightley did come back for Dead Men Tell No Tales, so it could be the case that the pair make an appearance for the final installment of the franchise. Suffice it to say, the two didn't work as replacements for Will and Elizabeth. The problem is, whereas Will and Elizabeth's courtship was central to the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and the pair had actual arcs in all three films, Swift and Syrena's romance was largely inconsequential to the rest of the plot in On Stranger Tides (widely regarded as the worst Pirates movie), and the two received little in the way of actual character development. Meanwhile, On Stranger Tides introduced a new pair of young heroes-turned lovers in the forms of Phillip Swift (Sam Claflin), an inexperienced but virtuous missionary imprisoned by the movie's villain Blackbeard, and Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as Syrena, a mermaid who is captured by Blackbeard and cared for by Swift, and later returned the favor by saving him after he's mortally wounded during the film's climax. Both Bloom and Knightley focused on acting in live theater and smaller films after wrapping the trilogy, and have only appeared in a handful of tentpoles in the years since.
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