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Blame Johnny Depp. I mean, listen, feel free to Watchmen universe?) Depp is responsible for turning the Pirates of the Caribbean films into hits, even when the series slipped into diminishing-returns territory. More importantly, he helped to prove a Mouse House theorem: When it comes to licensing, exploiting and rebooting, why stop at your best-known characters? Find the right actor, and you can sell your park properties’ greatest hits as intellectual properties too. If you can hire a better-than-decent director and keep the pace frantic, all the better. The movies then direct customers back to the park, and the circle of l̶i̶f̶e̶ commerce continues. The question was not whether this was the beginning of a trend but what the next “title” would be and how soon we’d be E-ticketing to a theater near us. The reprieve lasted longer than we thought, enough to lull us into a false sense of security. Maybe it’s unfair to blame the ghost of Jack Sparrow and the Pirates boom-bust of yore for The African Queen, steampunk, old-school Werner Herzog, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, the entire previous filmography of the Rock, that book on Ponce de Leon you forgot to return to your library in fourth grade and every boys’ adventure ever written. Still: the wisecracking, trickster rascal? The hyper-capable and social-sexism-thwarting heroine? The mystical, supernatural villains, and their imperialistic, human bad-guy counterpart? The set pieces that update bits of ye ol...

(Image credit: Disney) Jungle Cruise 2 Is Confirmed - But There’s No Set Release Date If you’ve been wondering if we’re going to see our favorite adventurers again, fear not, because it’s been confirmed that Jungle Cruise 2 is happening, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and joining Disney’s ongoing upcoming films list. However, even if the announcement has come out, there is no set release date as to when this sequel will premiere. This isn’t much of a surprise, considering it was only just announced a couple of months ago and filming is very unlikely to have started at this point, but it’s good to know that sooner or later, we’ll be returning to the jungle as if we had never left. It won’t be on any 2021 new movie releases , but, hopefully, we’ll get some more updates on it soon. Dwayne Johnson played Frank Wolff, a steamboat skipper who reluctantly agrees to guide two explorers on a quest for the mythical Tree of Life. Emily Blunt played Dr. Lily Houghton, an adventurous and virtuous botanist working in a male-dominated field who goes on the quest to find the tree to harness its power for modern-day medicine. I found Johnson and Blunt’s chemistry very enjoyable in the adventure film and they worked well off of each other, so hearing that they’re going to be coming back together makes this fan very happy. It’s unknown who else from the original cast might still come along, but as time goes on, I’m sure we’ll find out more. (Image credit: Disney) Jungle Cruise 2 Produc...