CHARACTER · PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
Will Turner
- Appears in
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
- Played by
- Orlando Bloom
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Will Turner is a character in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), played by Orlando Bloom.
9 Interesting Facts About Will Turner
Interesting Facts (3)
Life & Family (2)
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The sword Will made for Commodore Norrington in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) passes through many hands. Beckett gives it back to Norrington when Norrington is made an Admiral. Norrington drives it into Davy Jones in reply to Jones's question "Do you fear death?" Jones keeps it ("Nice sword!") and carries it into the final battle. During the fight Sparrow knocks it from Jones's grip onto the deck of the Dutchman, where one of Beckett's soldiers picks it up. As the soldier admires it, Jones kills him, reclaims the blade and later runs it through Will Turner's heart. The sword is last seen in Will's chest as his father goes to cut out his heart for the Dutchman's chest, though it is rumored that Will wears it at his waist when he and the Dutchman return, and that it is the sword lying in the sand beside Elizabeth's at the end.
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Notably, Captain Barbossa was not the one who killed Bootstrap Bill Turner. He did lash a cannon to Bill's boots and throw him overboard, but Bill was a (reluctant) member of the cursed crew and was likely the first to learn, on his way to the ocean floor, that he could not die. The ending therefore implies that when his son Will Turner broke the curse, Bill finally perished by drowning or under the water's pressure. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) reveals, however, that Davy Jones had already offered Bill a place in his crew, freeing him from both his entrapment and the Aztec curse. So even if Will's return of the gold piece, bloodied, to the chest had caused his death, Bill was in fact shielded by Davy Jones's contract.
About Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its cast (4)
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Geoffrey Rush, who had just worked with Orlando Bloom on Ned Kelly (2003), put him forward for Will Turner. Bloom said he brushed off the idea at first: "My agent said, 'Disney wants to make a movie based on a theme park ride,' and I was like, 'This is crazy,'" but Rush talked him into accepting.
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