May 21, 2017 – No female bad guys for Johnny

According to screenwriter Terry Rossio, the villain in this week's Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge wasn't always Javier Bardem's undead pirate hunter. Rather the film was to originally feature the long-running franchise's first female villain... until Depp vetoed it.

"My version of Dead Men Tell No Tales was set aside because it featured a female villain," Rossio revealed in a blog post on his website (via Movie Pilot). "Johnny Depp was worried that would be redundant to [his 2012 film] Dark Shadows, which also featured a female villain."

To be fair to Depp, it's an entirely understandable preference. After all, if there's one thing Depp doesn't like to do, it's merely rehash the same movie roles over and over and over again.