Hugh Jackman was first choice to play Jack Sparrow

[dnwilliams]

That is all.

[Sheridan Passell]

I wonder if that would have spared us these countless sequels, and freed Depp up to do more interesting stuff.

[dnwilliams]

Wash your mouth out with soap.

[dalmatianjaws]

Jackman would have nailed it, he's a stunning actor.

[Sheridan Passell]

Does anyone actually care what happens in On Stranger Tides?

[dnwilliams]

I do! I am super looking forward to that movie.

I think Jackman's great too, but it'd obviously be a completely different interpretation of the character, so it would be interesting to see if it would have been nearly as iconic without Depp's zaniness. The role was written 100% straight after all, and all the execs were pretty uneasy about what Depp was doing, I think it would probably have been a more straight-forward hero with distinctive charm in the Indiana Jones mould if Jackman had been given the part.

It's be GREAT to see him spar with Depp in a Pirates movie though. Him or Brad Pitt are probably the only ones I could see being antagonists in a Pirate movie that would be an equal to Depp, rather than the older thespian-type villains they've gone for so far.