PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5 Production Delayed Again Due To Johnny Depp’s Injury

Johnny Depp’s on set injury is further delaying production of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Depp suffered a hand injury on the film’s Australian set and traveld back to the United States for surgery on March 11. The injury was expected to cause a two-week delay in production, but EW now reports that filming won’t resume until April 15.

This is the second time production on the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film has been halted. Work was previously put on hold due to a tropical cyclone in the region in February.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is still scheduled for theatrical release on July 7, 2017.

Source: EW

‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Plot, Casting Announced as Production Begins

As production kicks off on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, a plot summary and additional castings have been announced.

Exodus: Gods and Kings actress Golshifteh Farahani has been added to the cast, which also features Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Kaya Scodelario, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally and Stephen Graham.

Kon-Tiki helmers Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning are directing the fifth installment of Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ franchise.

A new plot summary for the film was also revealed Tuesday: “Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar (Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea, including him. Captain Jack’s only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.”

Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the film, which was written by Jeff Nathanson. The executive producers are Chad Oman, Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr. and Brigham Taylor.

Source: THR

‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′ Adds Three to Cast

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has added Adam Brown, Delroy Atkinson, and Danny Kirrane to its cast.

The trio will join Johnny Depp for Brenton Thwaites for the Joachim Ronning and Espend Sandberg-directed sequel. Each actor’s role in the Pirates film is still unknown, according to Variety.

In fact, little is still known about the fifth Pirates of The Caribbean installment. Javier Bardem will reportedly play a ghost pirate with a bloodlust against Captain Jack Sparrow, and is rumored to team-up with Geoffrey Rush’s Captain Barbossa character to take him down.

Brown’s last film was The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, while Kirrane’s was Automata. Driver was last seen in the television series My Family.

Pre-production on Pirate Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is already underway in Australia, with a release date set for July 2017.

Source: Variety

Kaya Scodelario Boards Disney’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′

Disney has cast Kaya Scodelario as the female lead in the fifth “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

She most recently starred in “The Maze Runner” and the TV series “Skins.”

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer announced the casting of Scodelario via Twitter.

Pleased to announce that we cast Kaya Scodelario for the 5th Pirates of the Caribbean. Talented young actor from Skins & The Maze Runner.
— JERRY BRUCKHEIMER (@BRUCKHEIMERJB) January 24, 2015

Johnny Depp will return as Captain Jack Sparrow, with Javier Bardem playing the villain and Brenton Thwaites also set to co-star.

Pre-production on “Pirates” is already under way in Australia, where the big-budget sequel will be shot. The film will bow in July 2017.

Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, who helmed “Kon Tiki,” will direct.

Lead Sailing Toward Kaya Scodelario For Pirates Of The Caribbean 5

Kaya Scodelario is in early talks for the female lead in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The British actress got her big break in the cast of the original UK series Skins. She starred in The Truth About Emanuel and then in The Maze Runner. She is shooting the sequel to the latter film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.

Disney’s fifth installment of Pirates is being directed by the Kon-Tiki duo Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing and Johnny Depp reprises with Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom also in the mix. She’s repped by CAA, Curtis Brown, 3 Arts and attorney Gregory Slewett.

Source: Deadline

Javier Bardem may be Pirate Menace in Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow appears to have found a new foe. The Wrap reports that Javier Bardem is in talks to play Captain Brand, the chief antagonist of Pirates of the Caribbean 5.

The film, which is set for a Queensland, Australia production, follows the events of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and is likely to feature the return of Penelope Cruz (Bardem’s real-life wife) as Angelica. Previous reports have also hinted that Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner might also be returning to the franchise.

No stranger to playing franchise villains, Bardem went toe-to-toe with James Bond in Sam Mendes’ Skyfall in 2013. He can soon be seen in The Gunman, starring opposite Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance and Jasmine Trinca when the action thriller hits theaters February 20, 2015.

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg. The film is slated to be released in theaters on July 7, 2017.