Javier Bardem in Talks for Villain Role in 'Pirates of the Caribbean 5' — hollywoodreporter.com

Javier Bardem is in talks to play the villain in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the latest installment of the high seas fantasy. Johnny Depp is, of course, back as Jack Sparrow as is Geoffrey Rush, playing Barbosa, in the big tentpole that is eyeing a five-month shoot next year in Australia. Joachim Ronnin and Espen Sandbreg are directing. Plot details are as murky as a pirate's morals but Bardem would play a ghost captain who blames Sparrow for the death of his brother and is searching for a supernatural object to aid him.

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