Spanish actor Javier Bardem has been offered the role of Blackbeard in the upcoming Warner Bros. film—Pan.
The film, scripted by Jason Fuchs and based on the books by J.M. Barrie, tells the tale of an orphan’s adventures in Neverland where he fights evil pirates and saves the natives. The studio is currently in talks with Joe Wright to direct the film and Greg Berlanti will be producing it.
Bardem has a penchant for playing wicked characters—in 2008 he won Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men, he played villain Silva in Skyfall, and is currently playing the role of Reiner in The Counselor.
In 2011, Bardem‘s wife Penelope Cruz, played the daughter to Ian McShane’s Blackbeard character in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. No word on whether Bardem will have to wear excessive amounts of eyeliner, but it is more than likely.
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