~Pirate's IV May Have A New Director~

Disney is on the verge of putting Rob Marshall in as director of a fourth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” which is due to start filming 2010, with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney have been meeting with a number of directors in recent weeks, since Gore Verbinski stepped out to focus on a movie version of the vidgame “Bioshock” for Universal. Disney wants to pull the “Pirates” film together and have Depp star in it before he does “The Lone Ranger” for the producer and the studio. While Marshall’s involvement wasn’t immediately confirmed, sources said things look good enough that the studio has begun casting new characters that will appear in the picture.