Entertainment Weekly

27 January 2005

EW 2006 Preview/Movies

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST (JULY)

Orlando Bloom--calling from a barge in the Caribbean, where Disney is simultaneously shooting two sequels to its $305 million- grossing 2003 hit--is jazzed about one particular scene in No. 2. "There's a huge sword sequence, which, if it isn't the sword sequence that puts all sword sequences to bed, then I can't imagine what anyone could ever pull out of the ether to top it," he declares. It's a clash among three characters--including his Will Turner and Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow--"on a big water-mill wheel as it rolls down a hill. And we fight on top of it, and around it, and inside it. It's crazy." Sounds it, but we're dying to know: Will Keith Richards cameo as Jack's dad? "We're trying to work out his tour schedule with our schedule [for No. 3]," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer. "We're optimistic."