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Following the confirmation of Pirates of the Caribbean 4, many rumors and spoilers have been leaked online.

One of the strangest, though, stated that High School Musical star Zac Efron would be appearing in the Johnny Depp movie. That's news to Efron, however.

"Honestly, at this time it's just a rumor," Efron told Ryan Seacrest on the the latter's radio show this week. "I wish I was going to be in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, so hopefully that will happen for me."

Efron is trying to move beyond the High School Musical franchise. He'll be starring in 17 Again this spring alongside Matthew Perry and Leslie Mann.

Most young fans may be looking forward to seeing Zac Efron in High School Musical 3, but the actor is taking on a more dramatic role in. Me and Orson Welles. It premiere September 5 at the Toronto film fest.

''He's falling for this older woman,'' director Richard Linklater said of Efron's characters. ''She's taking him for a bit of a ride.''

The object of Efron's affection is Claire Danes. The actress portrats a production assistant, while Efron is an up-and-coming actor working on Welles' famous 1937 staging of Julius Caesar. Here the stars are together:

Fans of Zac Efron will be in for a shock when they see him in Me and Orson Welles.

Typically see wearing a basketball jersey and dancing around - as is the case in the High School Musical 3 photos we've uncovered - Efron is taken back to 1937 in this new film.

Here's a synopsis of Me and Orson Welles:

It's the story of a whirlwind week in 1937 New York City when young aspiring actor Richard Samuels (Efron) is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles’ historic staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

During this week, Richard will find romance with a worldly older woman (Sonja Jones, played by Claire Danes), become immersed in a creative experience few are afforded, and learn the downside of crossing the imperious, brilliant Welles (Christian McKay). Richard is about to grow up fast.”

The movie’s first complete screening will be at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 4–13. No release date has been set yet.