Johnny Depp vandt sin retsag imod ekskone Amber Heard, og det lader til at dele af hans ry er blevet restaureret. Derfor er der opstået rygter om et comeback som Jack Sparrow, og måske også endnu en rolle som Gellert Grindlewald i Fantastic Beasts-serien.
Om ikke andet siger danske Mads Mikkelsen i et interview med Deadline, at Depp kunne vende tilbage, og Mikkelsen er villig til at give ham rollen:
"It was very intimidating. Obviously, well, now the course has changed—he won the suit, the court [case]—so let's see if he comes back. He might. I'm a big fan of Johnny. I think he's an amazing actor, I think he did a fantastic job. Having said that, I could not copy it. There's there was no way I could just copy it, because it's so much him. It would be creative suicide. So, we had to come up with something else, something that was mine, and build a bridge between him and me. So, yes, it was intimidating. His fans were very, very sweet, but they were also very stubborn. I didn't interact too much with them, but I could understand why they had their hearts broken."
Det skal dog siges at studiet bag ikke har kommenteret på sagen, og nu hvor Fantastic Beasts-film ikke som sådan har hang for at levere i biograferne, så hænger hele serien i tynd tråd.