Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has finally received another breath of fresh air, this time in the form of Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin. First reported by THR, Mazin is will team up with Pirates mainstay Ted Elliott to pen what’s being hailed as a reboot to the franchise. Elliott previously wrote The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End, and On Strange Tides with Terry Rossio, his writing partner at the time. Mazin cut his comedic chops with films like Scary Movie and The Hangover before his critically-acclaimed Chernobyl mini-series for HBO this year.

The Mouse has wanted to get another Pirates film in the works ever since Dead Men Tell No Tales hit theaters over two years ago. At one point, the studio has hired Deadpool and Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to take a stab at the reboot script, although the pair eventually left the project earlier this year to focus on Deadpool 3 after the then-Fox-owned franchise took off critically and commercially.

Despite being reported as a Johnny Depp-less reboot, it’s expected Jerry Bruckheimer will return to the franchise as producer. Earlier this year, Disney film production boss Sean Bailey revealed the franchise would continue on without Depp after his mounting off-screen troubles.

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