William "Will" Turner is a fictional character and the protagonist in the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films. He appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and three of its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), and Dead Men Tell No Tales, which is set for release in 2017. He is portrayed by Orlando Bloom (and as a child by Dylan Smith in the prologue of The Curse of the Black Pearl).