Gossip says that Ian McShane (Deadwood) is currently in talks to join the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth in the mega-successful film franchise. He’s negotiating the role of Blackbeard, the famed pirate who plundered around the West Indies and the North Carolina coast.

Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz are definitely signed on to do the flick, the plot of which will revolve around a quest to discover the Fountain of Youth.