Jerry Bruckheimer is made of gold.  I’m convinced of it.  I think if he were to go on a tour of the National Reserve, alarms would blare if he tried to leave.

Well, Bruckheimer sat down with a panel of journalists on the set of ‘Prince of Persia’ to discuss some of this other, upcoming money-makers.  He stated that ‘National Treasure 3′ and ‘Pirates 4′ are both in the script phase.

“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′,” Bruckheimer said.

When asked if the next ‘Pirates’ film would be in IMAX, Bruckheimer said, “Absolutely. I’d love to do it, so let’s just see if we can work it through the production schedule with everything else.”

He went on to say that ‘Pirates 4′ would be pushing for a 2012 release.

It was more or less made official last month at the Disney event in Hollywood that Johnny Depp would be playing Tonto in ‘The Lone Ranger’, but ever since, there have been rumors about George Clooney putting on the black mask.  Bruckheimer commented on that, too.

“We haven’t decided who is going to play the Lone Ranger yet.  Get a director first and then figure it out.”

Source: Coming Soon