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• Did Disney offer Johnny Depp 301 million?▾

  Reports surfaced in 2018 claiming Disney offered Johnny Depp around $301 million plus extras to return for a sixth Pirates of the Caribbean film, but Disney never confirmed this and Depp's representatives denied the offer was ever made.

• What is Davy Jones' weakness?▾

  Davy Jones' weakness is his still-beating heart, which he cut out of his body and locked inside the Dead Man's Chest; whoever stabs the heart kills him, and whoever possesses it controls him and the Flying Dutchman.

• What is the only ship that can outrun the Dutchman?▾

  The Black Pearl is the only ship said to be able to outrun the Flying Dutchman.

• What is the Dead Man's Chest and why does everyone want it?▾

  The Dead Man's Chest is a literal chest containing the still-beating heart of Davy Jones, which he cut out and locked away after being betrayed by his true love Calypso. Because the heart beats outside his body, Jones cannot be killed as long as it remains intact. Whoever possesses the chest — and the key that unlocks it — holds absolute power over Jones and, by extension, command of the Flying Dutchman and its crew.

• Why is Jack Sparrow so desperate to find the chest?▾

  Thirteen years before the events of the film, Jack Sparrow made a blood debt with Davy Jones: Jones raised the Black Pearl from the bottom of the ocean and gave Jack thirteen years as its captain, in exchange for Jack serving aboard the Flying Dutchman for a hundred years. The debt has come due, and Jones sends the Kraken to collect Jack's soul. Jack seeks the chest hoping to use Jones's heart as leverage to cancel the debt or, failing that, to stab the heart and take Jones's place as captain of the Dutchman.

• Who actually betrays Jack at the end, and why?▾

  Elizabeth Swann handcuffs Jack to the mast of the Pearl while the Kraken attacks, sacrificing him to save the rest of the crew. She acts partly out of pragmatic survival — Jack kissed her and she fears her own complicated feelings for him — and partly because she recognises that the Kraken will not stop hunting as long as Jack is alive. Her decision haunts her through the next film, and Will Turner does not learn the full truth until later.

• What is the Bootstrap Bill subplot and what has happened to Will's father?▾

  Bootstrap Bill Turner, Will's father, voluntarily sent his own piece of the cursed Aztec gold to the bottom of the sea so the crew of the Black Pearl could never break the curse, meaning he remained cursed and immortal at the ocean floor. Davy Jones eventually retrieved him and pressed him into a hundred-year servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman. By the time Will finds him, Bootstrap has been aboard so long that barnacles and sea-growth have begun fusing him to the ship's hull, and his mind is becoming detached from reality — a fate that awaits all who serve Jones indefinitely.

• What does the ending reveal about Barbossa and what does it set up?▾

  In the final scene, Tia Dalma brings a resurrected Captain Barbossa down the stairs of her shack, revealing that she secretly kept him alive — or brought him back — after his death in the first film. This twist establishes that Tia Dalma has far greater supernatural power than she has shown, and sets up the third film's revelation that she is actually Calypso, the sea goddess whose binding by the Brethren Court is directly connected to Davy Jones's curse and the wider mythology of the series.