Disney sure went through a lot of trouble at SDCC this year to make sure people knew they were serious about the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Carting a fully Jack Sparrow'ed out Johnny Depp onto the Hall H stage was about as much of a spectacle as you could ever hope to make. However, since former Chairman of Walt Disney Studios Dick Cook was forced to walk the plank, Depp's enthusiasm for the project has gotten a punch to the nuts. And now batting clean up for that mess is Bill Nighy.

Nighy you may or may not know is the voice and motion behind everyone's favorite tentacled villain Davy Jones and has 'veteran actor' written all over him. When talking to the gang over at Sci-Fi Wire (didn't bother changing that to SyFy then did you, SyFy? Awful) Nighy said:

I understand that there was an announcement that there was going to be a fourth, and now I've been told since that that was not a reliable announcement.

Which is a pretty good indication to me that Disney is pretty deeply fucked at the moment as they try to salvage the pieces of Depp's broken enthusiasm. They made their announcement with such grandeur that for them to say the it was "not a reliable announcement"  is very obviously them trying to cover their asses.

Thankfully, Nighy is very much on board should PotC: On Stranger Tides ever find its way into production as imagining a Pirates film without EITHER Depp or Nighy is impossible. Perhaps Disney should take Jack's compass and try to find what it is they want most: to not look like idiots.