Comedic actor and stand-up comedian Russell Brand is set to play Jack Sparrow's brother in the next instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean saga.
The comedian who made headlines recently when telephone messages he and Jonathan Ross left on Andrew Sachs answer phone sparked outrage, prompting him to resign his £200,000 a year job with BBC2, is set to earn £5m as Jonathan, the younger brother of the eccentric Jack Sparrow.
Russell Brand's own eccentricities are thought to stand him in good stead, with his mannerisms closely matching the fantasy pirate Jack Sparrow's, and the deal would launch Brand immediately into Hollywood A-list status.
Brand made his film debut earlier this year in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, where he played Sarah's (Kristen Bell) new rock star boyfriend, who travel together to Hawaii and inadvertently bump into her ex-boyfriend. Brand made headlines when he turned up to the audition not having even read the script, winning out with bravado and charm.
From a rough childhood to heroin addiction, Brand has grown in stature from his early days of presenting Big Brothers Big Mouth, and has seen him host the NME Awards where he famously made a dig about Sir Bob Geldof, calling him Sir Bobby Gandalf, winning PETA's sexiest vegetarian of the year, but this is not without controversy.
Brand has also made headlines for being sacked from MTV for arriving at work dressed as Osama Bin Laden a day after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and for referring to George W Bush as that 'retard cowboy fella'.
Love or loathe him, Brand cannot help but command presence, both on stage and screen, and his recent growth of success in the US indicates he is set for big things.
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