Keith Richards was expected to go out promoting Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End but Disney has reconsidered having him on the job.
Keith Richards reportedly will not promote the new ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie – after saying he snorted his dead dad’s ashes.
Concerned Walt Disney Studio bosses have decided the Rolling Stones guitarist is too unpredictable to promote ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’.
Dennis Rice, Disney’s senior vice president for publicity, said: “When (a senior Disney publicist) forwarded the ashes story to me, I thought, ‘How are we going to spin this?’
“Keith won’t be doing a lot of publicity for this movie.”
And I don’t blame them.
The only reason Keith Richards was even considered for the role of Jack’s dad is that Depp was inspired by the quirky affectations of the Rolling Stones musician when getting into character for Captain Jack Sparrow. It only seemed fitting.
Then recent news that there are no limits to which Keith will go to challenge his life expectancy or decency limits, the squeeky clean Disney PR team decided they would sweep him under the carpet.
With a recognizable name like Richards, it was obvious that no matter how small his role was, they intended to get him on the publicity parade. Talk shows, public appearances, whatever it takes to pump up this movie.
But they had no idea what he might say at any one of these photo ops. For all they know, he has a grand story of his most recent adventure dry humping dolphins caught in fisherman’s tuna nets that he just feels the need to share with David Letterman.
So yeah, he gets to sit this one out. If he could count all his toes, he might care.
