Johnny Depp is coming to Walt Disney World’s Pirates of the Caribbean — or at least his likeness is coming – by Scott Powers of the Orlando Sentinel
Disney will make changes this spring in the mainstay Pirates ride at both Magic Kingdom and Disneyland — adding characters from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and updating some of the special effects.
To do so, Disney will close both rides in early March for four months. The attractions will reopen just in time for the release of the sequel movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, in late June in California and July 7 at Walt Disney World.
The movie character Capt. Jack Sparrow, portrayed by Depp, will be mixed in with the 120 robotic performers in the ride. Barbossa, Sparrow’s nemesis in the first movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, also will appear. So will a ghostly figure from the new movie, Davy Jones.
