Following months of speculation, the 62 year-old musician has announced that he will play the father of Captain Jack Sparrow, the character played by actor Johnny Depp. Depp said that he had based his character’s mannerisms from Richards, so it made sense to cast the actual man himself in the role of his father.
Filming for Pirates will begin next month in California.
Keith Richards is now very busy after a two-month absence. While on holiday in Fiji, the guitarist fell from a tree. The accident required brain surgery for Richards.