Pirates Of The Caribbean fans have threatened to boycott the next installment of the series after being spooked by the rumoured replacement for Johnny Depp as lead.

It was suggested that The Bear's Ayo Edebiri was being considered by Disney to front the sixth film in the series, although others have rejected this claim.

Seven years have passed since Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge came out as the fifth Pirates movie and there have been continuing suggestions since that a sixth is going to happen.

Faced with the prospect of a Depp-less edition, one fan wrote on X: 'If it ain’t Depp I ain’t watching.'