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With Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End poised to be the next in a wave of mammoth movie installments currently toppling box office records, star Orlando Bloom—who, having played Gwyneth-haired Elf warrior Legolas in the LOTR trilogy, is no stranger to the grueling schedule of back-to-back adventure trilogy shoots—admits to the MTV Movies Blog of having the kind of career fatigue that plagues only a handful of actors. That is, having one's fill of starring roles in gigantic-budgeted movies that approximately half the world's population will see:

MTV: You keep saying things like "I've loved working with [Johnny Depp]." Is this the end of the line for you? What is the future of the "Pirates" franchise?

Bloom: I'm looking forward to "Pirates 10" because I'm gonna come out with a walker, and Johnny's gonna be wheeling himself out in a wheelchair. [He laughs.]

MTV: Seriously, though, Johnny has said he'd do more. Would you?

Bloom: Honestly, it's been a really great, fun ride. I'm looking forward to doing some theater in London at the end of this.

While At World's End might indeed mark Bloom's last swing of the scimitar, we wonder how long he'll be able to tread the West End boards before he begins to long to return to the creative womb of the seafaring trilogy. Sure, the dialogue may not be Chekhov or Stoppard—Bloom even admitted to EW recently that "the writers can't even explain the third movie"—but explosion for explosion, 8-figure paycheck for 8-figure paycheck, nothing quite fulfills an actor's shallow need to validate their bankability like starring in a Jerry Bruckheimer production.

Bonus Link: Merry trailer-mashing pranksters Black20 are back again with their take on Captain Jack Sparrow's latest adventures, co-starring Sloth, Rizzo the Rat, and Richard Grieco.