According to The Orlando Bloom Files, via Coming Soon, in Monday’s Walt Disney Investor Conference Studio Presentation – which can be heard here – Disney studio Chairman Dick Cook revealed some rather large details about the two sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, now the film’s official title, will involve, “This time around, Johnny returns as Captain Jack Sparrow and is caught in yet another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. It turns out, Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. If Jack can’t figure a crafty way out of this one, he’ll be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation. And as if that weren’t enough, Captain Jack’s problems throw a huge wrench into the wedding plans of the blissful Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who quickly find themselves thrust into Jack’s misadventures.”
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest will hit theaters summer of 2006, while Pirates of the Caribbean 3 will enter theaters summer of 2007. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley will return for both sequels. In related news, Dark Horizons reports that Aussie band Jet may be cameoing as pirates in both films.