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Disney is falling all over itself to frantically reassure everybody within hearing distance of a Disney mouthpiece that, yes, Johnny Depp WILL be in for Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides.  Leave aside the bizarre comments Depp made following the sacking of Disney head Dick Cook–he will be back.

Of course, his involvement in Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Whatever The Hell We’re Going to Subtitle This Thing is best described as “unlikely”.  This is okay, because absolutely no part of Five has been greenlit and thus is all still very much up in the air.  My guess is they’re going to pick from their enormous array of teen stars to supplant him.

Zac Efron, maybe.  Bet he’d look all right mincing around in eyeliner and saying looney things.  And by the time Pirates 5 actually comes to pass I’ll bet they’ll have a whole stable full of guy stars they can tap to take on the Sparrow role, or whatever role they want.