Release date: July 9, 2006

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

Production Company: Jerry Bruckheimer Pictures (Con Air, Bad Boys 2, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawlk Down)

Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

Cast:
Johnny Depp.......................Jack Sparrow
Orlando Bloom.......................William Turner
Keira Knightley.......................Elizabeth Swann
Geoffrey Rush.......................Capt. Barbossa
Bill Nighy.......................Davy Jones
Stellan Skarsgård.......................'Bootstaps' Turner
Naomie Harris.......................Tia Dalma
Jack Davenport.......................Commodore James Norrington
Winston Ellis.......................Palafico
Jonathan Pryce ....................... Governor Weatherby Swann
Tom Hollander.......................Lord Cutler Beckett
Kevin McNally.......................Joshamee Gibbs
Lee Arenberg .......................Pintel
Mackenzie Crook....................... Ragetti

Director: Gore Verbinski (Mouse Hunt, The Mexican; his latest before this is the horror remake, The Ring)

Filming: (3/24/04) Production is scheduled to start in the Caribbean in January, 2005. There is a strong possibility that this movie may actually filmed back-to-back with 'Pirates of the Caribbean 3.'

Info: There will be two sequals, filmed back to back.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards will star as Captain Jack Sparrow's father in one of the two upcoming 'Pirates of the Caribbean' sequels, co-star Bill Nighy has confirmed. Johnny Depp, who plays Captain Sparrow, has been trying to persuade Richards to make a cameo for months, after revealing his character was based on the guitarist. It was thought The Rolling Stones tour schedule stood in the way, but Depp was confident - earlier this month he said, "It's looking very good." And Nighy - who plays Davey Jones in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' - is happy to end the speculation. The British actor says, "I can confirm, Keith Richards will appear in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 or 3. I'm not sure which one, because they are being filmed back to back."

Posted by Terry (POTC screenwriter) at wordplayer.com: Ideally, it would go like this: approval of the stories that have been designed over the past four months would come sometime this week, along with the conclusion of extensive and complex negotiations will the principal filmmakers -- for two movies, to be shot back to back, a huge commitment of time, money, and resources. The screenplay(s) would then be written over the next 8-10 weeks which takes us into July. Based on the screenplays (which will continue to be revised) the preproduction on these two movies would take place, which includes location scouting, set design, building ships, negotiations with different countries, casting, special effects tests, and a million other things. If all goes well, principle photography would begin sometime early next year, and proceed for nine months (seems like a long time but we're talking two movies here, which is only 4 and a 1/2 months per movie) We're talking shooting on the water, action, costumes, and shooting for effects, all commonly time consuming stuff. So that takes us past next summer to late next year. Then comes the post production work -- editing and scoring and effects, etc. Which allowes the 1st sequel to be prepped and ready for release in Summer of 2006.

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