The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor has asked for a guest spot on the hit show and its creators, David Walliams and Matt Lucas, say they are working frantically to make his dream a reality.

Lucas revealed: “We’re looking into it. It would be great if Johnny could appear.”

The Hollywood heartthrob has even created a role for himself and reportedly wants to play a friend to Walliams’ character Emily – a transvestite dressed in a turn-of-the-century ladies’ dress.

A source added: “Johnny would love to appear in the show. His favourite character is Emily and he’s hinted that he’d love to play one of her friends. He’s made it clear he’d even dress in drag.”

Meanwhile, Depp has revealed he based his sinister Willy Wonka character in forthcoming movie ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ on rocker Marilyn Manson.

The star reportedly says he wanted to give the flamboyant factory owner a darker edge and thought Manson was the perfect muse.

He does still plan to make Pirates 2 and 3 simultaneously if possible. “We’d like to. If Disney will write a check, we’ll do it.”

Of course, that schedule has only worked once, with the Lord of the Rings films. Other series, like The Matrix and Back to the Future found diminishing returns for forcing two sequels at the same time.

“We hope that we can do it as well as Lord of the Rings did it. That’s what you shoot for. You only learn through making mistakes, so we’ll watch what Back to the Future did and Matrix did and hopefully not repeat what they did.”

Bruckheimer’s confidence is pinned on the talent from the original film. “We have the same team that did the first one and hopefully we can have the same success. It’s the same two writers who rewrote the first one and same director, same three actors initially and we’re negotiating with the rest of them, so hopefully we’ll get everybody back.”