A scene from the Pirates film

Two months back Disney had a huge conference for all their upcoming movies, which culminated in big announcements about new installments of two of the studio’s biggest franchises done in collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer Productions, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and a third National Treasure movie(this should not be happening), as well as reinventing The Lone Ranger movie.

Since that day there have been several developments in these movies. The guys at ComingSoon got to have a chat with Jerry Bruckheimer on the set of potentially his next big Disney franchise, based on the video game Prince of Persia Sands of Time, to get some first hand info about these projects.

Bruckheimer had this to say about most of the projects “That’s why I can’t spend a lot of time here. We have a lot of things,” and mentioned some of the projects he’s actively working on. “We’re doing another ‘National Treasure’ so we’re working on that, we’re preparing ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ right now—it’s going to be shot in New York—we have another picture that’s in post-production that we’re finishing called ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ with Isla Fischer and Hugh Dancy, so that comes out in February.”

In the case of the National treasure and Pirates of Caribbean movies scripts are being written for both these movies as we speak. “We’ve sat with the writers and we’re working up the story and plotlines right now. They’re in the process of finishing ‘The Lone Ranger’ so they’re working on both of those simultaneously, same set of writers, Elliot and Rossio, who did all three ‘Pirates’ and worked on ‘National Treasure (2)’”

Another question the Coming Soon guys asked was on the Imax front. Bruckheimer responded “Absolutely. I’d love to do it, so let’s just see if we can work it through the production schedule with everything else.”

“I think they’re pushing towards 2012,” Bruckheimer told us about the possible release date for this fourth “Pirates” movie. “Hopefully we can make it we’ll see.”

The only confirmation we got on the Lone Ranger front is the fact that Johnny Depp is confirmed to play Tonto. But the rumors that George Clooney playing the title character has been rubbished by Jerry, Jerry said that they haven’t even got a director for the film.

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