Last year, Orlando Bloom mentioned that he had been in discussions with Disney about reprising his role as Will Turner in the upcoming sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, but we weren't sure if he'd actually be coming back or not. This past weekend at the D23 Expo, it was officially announced that he'll be starring in the film.

There's no word on whether or not Keira Knightley will be coming back this time, too, but I suppose there's a way to include Bloom's character in the story without Knightley's Elizabeth getting involved since the last time we saw him at the end of Pirates 3, he became an immortal being who captains The Flying Dutchman and ferries souls to the Netherworld, supposedly only allowed to visit Elizabeth (and their son) once every ten years.

I thought Will and Elizabeth's relationship worked well as the centerpiece for the original movie, but by the time the third film ended, I was sick of seeing them. Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow is the main reason people come to these movies, but On Stranger Tides apparently didn't do well enough to convince the studio that he could headline another adventure on his own. I'm frankly a little surprised another movie is even happening at all, since I feel like this franchise has fully run its course, but — much like the pirates it depicts — where there's money to be made, you can be sure Disney will be there to try to claim it.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales arrives in theaters on July 7th, 2017.

Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea...including him. Captain Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.