Pirates Of The Caribbean 6 Return Addressed By Franchise Star After New Johnny Depp Update

Published Nov 14, 2026, 10:31 AM EST

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After Johnny Depp's latest comments, another franchise star addresses returning for Pirates of the Caribbean 6.

During the press tour for his new movie, Ebenezer, Depp shared that he doesn't "know if you'll see us set sail. We might do that privately." He then revealed his Pirates of the Caribbean 6 return condition is that "if things are exactly where they need to be with regard to how they're going to top off the Pirates thing, the only involvement I really want to have truly is just to send them off on a better note."

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Pirates of the Caribbean star Mackenzie Crook, who plays Ragetti, was asked if he is open to returning after Depp's recent remarks. He replied, "Yes, I think I would for the hell of it. It would be so interesting – obviously it would depend on the script – to even just have a cameo to see what happened to those characters, Pintel and Ragetti, what happened to them after we last saw them. Again, I was really fond of those characters."

Crook also looked back on the making of the movies, admitting "at times it was grueling" while also emphasizing that "I was aware that this was sort of the end of an era. In one of the movies, a ship had to blow up, and so we got a ship and packed it with explosives and blew it up. And I don't think you'd do that now. It would all be CGI, but this sort of felt like the last remnants of old-fashioned movie making. It was special."

The bumbling, comedic, and fan-favorite pirate duo Ragetti and Pintel (Lee Arenberg) are in the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, in which they serve on the crews of both Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp). They are last seen in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End with Barbossa aboard The Black Pearl after stealing the ship from Jack.

There were plans for Ragetti and Pintel to return in the fourth and fifth installments, On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales, but their appearances were cut from the former, and scheduling conflicts got in the way of coming back in the latter sequel. Now that Crook confirms he is open to reprising his role in Pirates of the Caribbean 6, Ragetti could appear for the first time since At World's End was released in 2007, both continuing his story and potentially providing closure for it.

Depp's return condition makes it clear that closure is what he is most interested in when it comes to the long-gestating movie. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has spoken on numerous occasions about the project being in development and that there have been ongoing talks with Depp. Along with bringing back prior actors from the franchise, Margot Robbie has been reported as being attached to the film at various points, in what previously was being described as more of a reboot, while discussions in more recent years have been more indicative of a sequel featuring Jack.

The movie still has a long way to go, and many crucial details need to be finalized, before getting greenlit. Depp's return to the public eye and mainstream movies with Ebenezer, and his comments about what it would take for him to play Jack again, has brought a renewed focus to making the sequel a reality, though, as have stars like Crook weighing in on also returning. Depp playing Jack again, possibly for the last time, would undoubtedly be the biggest draw, but bringing back fan-favorite characters like Ragetti would also tap into nostalgia for longtime fans, especially if he reunites with Pintel.

In the years between At World's End and the in-development Pirates of the Caribbean 6, Crook has played Looper in City of Ember, Orell in Game of Thrones, Andy Stone in The Detectorists, the voice of Hawkbit in Netflix's Watership Down miniseries, Gordon in Small Prophets, and the voice of Kreacher in Audible's full-cast audio editions of the Harry Potter books.