Why Elizabeth & Will Didnt Return In Pirates of the Caribbean 4

Why Elizabeth & Will Didn’t Return In Pirates of the Caribbean 4

Will and Elizabeth were the co-leads in the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Here’s why neither of them appeared in On Stranger Tides.

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Why Elizabeth & Will Didnt Return In Pirates of the Caribbean 4

Will and Elizabeth didn’t return for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides because Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley wanted to pursue other projects. For all the attention Johnny Depp received for his Oscar-nominated performance as Jack Sparrow in 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, he wasn’t actually the film’s lead(s). That honor went to Bloom and Knightley, who costarred as the star-crossed lovers Will Turner, a humble blacksmith’s apprentice, and Elizabeth Swann, the adventure-seeking daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann.

In the wake of The Curse of the Black Pearl’s success at the box office, Disney green-lit a pair of sequels to be shot back-to-back, with Bloom and Knightley reprising their respective roles. Titled Dead Men’s Chest and At World’s End, the films would go on to follow the pair as their wedding plans are interrupted and their fates once again intertwined with that of Jack’s, with Will attempting to free his father, Bill, from an eternity of servitude aboard Davy Jones’ ship the Flying Dutchman and Elizabeth unexpectedly being elected the new Pirate King (with a little help from Jack). In the end, Will and Elizabeth finally get married before Will is killed in the climactic battle with Jones and then resurrected as the Dutchman’s new captain, but at a price: he and Elizabeth can only see one another every ten years, when he’s able to set foot on land again.

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Combined with the At World’s End credits scene (which showed Will reuniting with Elizabeth and their young son Henry), the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy ultimately concluded Will and Elizabeth’s story on a bittersweet, but satisfying note. Because of this, Bloom and Knightley were ready to leave the franchise behind them after that, even as development on a fourth film (which would become On Stranger Tides) started to ramp up. In an interview with The Independent in 2010, Knightley confirmed she wouldn’t reprise her role as Elizabeth for the movie, saying she “had a wonderful time” making the trilogy, “but you know, I think, for me three is enough, definitely.” Bloom made similar comments in an interview with MTV that year, saying he had “a great time” on the trilogy before explaining “I just really wanted to do different things.”

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. 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 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. 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, and the two received little in the way of real character development. Suffice it to say, the two didn’t work as replacements for Will and Elizabeth.

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In an effort to rejuvenate the property, 2017’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales followed a now-grown Henry (Brenton Thwaites) as he teams up with Jack to undo the curse upon his father, with Bloom and Knightley briefly appearing as Will and Elizabeth. The movie’s credits scene further teased their involvement with Pirates of the Caribbean 6, only for its lackluster critical and commercial performance to put those plans into doubt. Instead, there’re now reports of Disney soft-rebooting the series around a new protagonist, but with no mention of whether Bloom and Knightley would return. On Stranger Tides showed just how important their characters are to the series in its current form, so it’s hard to say whether the franchise would be better off picking up where the fifth movie left things or breaking away completely from what’s come before (if not somewhere in-between those two options).

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