Pirates of the Caribbean 6
Originally written in June 2017
Since the first movie came out, in 2003, I became a big fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise: I saw all the movies, played the first 2 games for PS2, read the Italian comics (which have some canon elements), and the first 4 of the 19 canon books. The sequels, even though awesome, epic, and funny, got gradually worst and worst. A thing I noticed in the last 2 movies (On Stranger Tides, 2011, and Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017) is that, in both movies, an important item was already used in the first 12 books (2006-2008): the magic sword which controls Blackbeard's ship, and the Trident of Poseidon. The Sword looked incredibly similar to the Sword of Cortéz, whose treasure was cursed in the first movie. The Sword of Cortéz changed a fishing ship into a grand galleon and could control it entirely! The Trident is pretty obvious. So, since I am a fan of time travel, and a third item of those 12 books is a Pocketwatch that stops, resets and rips time, I started to imagine a plot for the sixth movie, a plot that could close the series and go full circle on it. Warning: this movie will have a lot of fan service! You saw the title: Daughter's or Daughters' Revenge.
The Daughters are Angelica Teach (Penélope Cruz), Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), Carina Smyth Barbossa (Kaya Scodelario) and Elizabeth Swann-Turner (Keira Knightley). Angelica Teach, Blackbeard's daughter, at the end of the fourth movie, wanted revenge on Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa. Carina Smyth is Barbossa's daughter. Elizabeth is Governor Weatherby Swann's daughter, and she wanted revenge on Davy Jones until she, Jack and an unconscious Will Turner killed him. Tia Dalma, or Calypso, in the Greek mythology is Poseidon's granddaughter. At least, that's what I found last year! Now, I can't find it, but, since in the movies she and Poseidon are the only mentioned Deities, they both control oceans and seas, and the destruction of the Trident broke every curse, especially the one SHE put on the Flying Dutchman's crew, we can safely, and as an artistic license, put them as father and daughter in the sixth movie. To resume: Blackbeard's daughter wants revenge on Jack and Barbossa; Carina is Barbossa's daughter; Elizabeth wants Davy Jones dead; Calypso lost her curse and her father's Trident.
In the books, Davy Jones wants the Pocketwatch, and since he apparently came back because the curse was broken and this doesn't make sense (he was stabbed in the heart), let's say he got brought back from the past with the Pocketwatch. His ally is Angelica, who found the Pocketwatch some time after Jack left her in a deserted island, and stole it. Her plan is to save Davy Jones and send him as a diversion to Will, Elizabeth, Henry and Carina, while she goes to the past to kill Jack and Barbossa to save Blackbeard from his destiny. When they discover this, old Jack, Henry and Carina go to the past and form an alliance with Barbossa, young Jack and Tia Dalma in search of the original Pocketwatch (a previous version of it) and Angelica, while Will and Elizabeth deal with Davy Jones, forming an alliance with Calypso, initially angry with Henry for the loss of the Trident (she maybe helped Angelica in her plan), but then forgiving for 3 reasons: 1 - Henry just wanted to save his father and his grandfather; 2 - she wants to repay them for her freedom; 3 - if the stream of time remains broken for too long, the consequences will be unimaginable (Great Scott!). Tia Dalma's contribution, in the past, would be to get rid of Jack's Voodoo Doll, asking for old Jack's compass as the payment. In the scene at the end of the credits, young Jack goes to Tia Dalma and she gives him the compass [we know SHE gave it to him from an Italian comic, the first book and the SECOND MOVIE, so... Who the heck was that random captain with the "never betray the compass" advice? Apparently, his own captain of the time, who just stole it from him! Anyway, the tribute to Jack is non-canonical, because he bought the hat (extra DVD from third movie), and the pearls are from the first book], which is shown next to a Devil's Triangle image, hinting to Tia Dalma connecting the two together (never explained that connection and Salazar knowing that power in the fifth movie), and the movie ends with an image of Tia Dalma's left profile, smiling. Another shot I've imagined, is young Jack and old Jack (in front of the camera), next to each other, controlling, with the same solemn movements (and watching to their right), respectively the Pocketwatch and the compass. While, in the present, Calypso, Will and Elizabeth try to send Davy Jones to the past, fusing different eras together, in the past the Jacks, Barbossa, Carina and Henry defeat Angelica and convince the Pocketwatch's owner (who I'd love or dream to interpret) to destroy it, causing time to be fixed, young Jack and Barbossa to have an amnesia (or it could be the price for the compass) and everyone to be sent back to their times. The climax would be this epic battle, like a furious tempest in the middle of the Bermuda's Triangle, between Barbossa, the Jacks, Carina, Will, Henry, Calypso and Elizabeth against Angelica and Davy Jones traveling through different eras, with the modern military ships and planes that disappeared there.
