Jack Will Be Back: New Pirates of the Caribbean to Start Production

QUEENSLAND, Australia - Production has commenced on location in Australia on Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films' epic comedy adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Directed by Espen Sandberg & Joachim R nning ( Kon-Tiki ), the fifth entry in the blockbuster franchise inspired by the classic Disney Theme Parks attraction, which has reaped $3.7 billion in worldwide box office. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will film entirely at Village Roadshow Studios and on locations within Queensland, Australia.

Johnny Depp returns to his iconic, Academy Award-nominated role of Captain Jack Sparrow, one of the most beloved characters in motion picture history, newly joined by Oscar winner Javier Bardem ( No Country for Old Men, Skyfall ), rising young stars Kaya Scodelario ( The Maze Runner, British television's Skins ) and Brenton Thwaites ( Maleficent, The Giver ) and Golshifteh Farahani ( The Patience Stone, Exodus: Gods and Kings ). Rejoining the action are Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa, Kevin R. McNally as Joshamee Gibbs and Stephen Graham as Scrum.

Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow 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 Devils Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea...including him. Captain Jacks 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

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Jeff Nathanson ( Catch Me If You Can, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ). The executive producers are Chad Oman, Joe Caracciolo, Jr. and Brigham Taylor.

Joining Bruckheimer, Sandberg & R nning for the swashbuckling new voyage is a first-tier group of award-winning behind-the-scenes artists-many of them new to the Pirates of the Caribbean family-including director of photography Paul Cameron ( Gone in Sixty Seconds, D j Vu, Collateral ), production designer Nigel Phelps ( Pearl Harbor, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, World War Z ), costume designer Penny Rose (all four Pirates of the Caribbean films), visual effects supervisor Gary Brozenich ( The Lone Ranger, Edge of Tomorrow ), Oscar-winning special effects production consultant John Frazier (nine Jerry Bruckheimer films and dozens of others) and special effects supervisor Dan Oliver ( Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men Origins: Wolverine ), supervising stunt coordinator R.A. Rondell ( The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 ) and stunt coordinators Thomas Robinson Harper ( Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier ) and Kyle Gardiner ( San Andreas, Kingsman: The Secret Service ), Academy Award-winning makeup and hair designer Peter Swords King ( The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, Into the Woods ) and film editors Joel Cox ( Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, American Sniper ) and Gary D. Roach ( American Sniper ).

The exciting filmmaking team of Sandberg & R nning directed Kon-Tiki, the critically acclaimed story of famed explorer Thor Heyerdahl, which was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film from their native Norway. Following their work as award-winning commercial and music video directors, R nning and Sandberg directed the World War II action drama Max Manus: Man of War before taking on Kon-Tiki. Most recently R nning and Sandberg served as executive producers and directed the first two episodes of Netflix's big-scale mini-series Marco Polo, which they filmed on exotic locations in Malaysia, Kazakhstan and Venice. A second season was recently announced for Marco Polo, with R nning and Sandberg continuing on as executive producers.

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