Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean) Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean) Davy Jones is a fictional character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series, portrayed by Bill Nighy. He appears in the second film "" and returns in the third film "". He is the captain of the "Flying Dutchman" (based on the ghost ship of the same name). The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was named by "Entertainment Weekly" as the tenth favorite computer generated film character in film history, behind King Kong in 2007. The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned them the 2006 Academy Award for
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Magic before being cancelled. Ron Gilbert, the creator of the "Monkey Island" series, has jokingly expressed a bitterness towards "Pirates of the Caribbean", specifically the , for its similarities to his game. Gilbert has also stated that "On Stranger Tides", a novel by Tim Powers which was adapted into the , was the principal source of inspiration for his video games. Verbinski did not want an entirely romanticized feel to the film: he wanted a sense of historical fantasy. Most of the actors wore prosthetics and contact lenses. Depp had contacts that acted as sunglasses, while Rush and Lee Arenberg