User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Will Turner in Pirates 5/@comment-33853949-20120821061430/@comment-1984959-20120821062439

Just to clarify... Only Keira Knightley(Elizabeth) said that she didn't want to return. Mackenzie Crook(Ragetti) only said he wasn't returning in P4 because "no one called him", which was inevitable as per what was decided for the film's story. Lee Arenberg(Pintel), on the other hand, said absolutely nothing regarding returning or otherwise! The only time he even mentioned his character's return in P4 was during the El Capitan premiere, in which he says "Everything happens for a reason" And just because Pintel and Ragetti(along with the other crew of the Black Pearl) didn't appear in OST doesn't mean their dead. So it's impossible to say that he didn't want to return with the current, and only, evidence.

And many agree that Will's presence is not needed anymore in the films. Me being one of them.