Disney released some plot details as Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow for the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film, On Stranger Tides.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has begun production and will be released on May 20, 2011 and in 3D, Walt Disney Pictures said on Monday, adding that Johnny Depp is reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow and Geoffrey Rush returns as Captain Hector Barbossa.
However, Orlando Bloom, who played pirate Will Turner in the previous three movies, has not signed on for the fourth installment.
Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz will play Sparrow’s love interest and Ian McShane of Deadwood fame stars as the pirate Blackbeard. The movie also stars Kevin R. McNally as Sparrow’s comrade Joshamee Gibbs and Sam Claflin as a “stalwart missionary”.
“In this action-packed tale of truth, betrayal, youth and demise, Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he’92s not sure if it’92s love’97or if she’92s a ruthless con artist who’92s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth,” Walt Disney Pictures said in its statement.
“When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne’92s Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’92t know who to fear more – Blackbeard or the woman from his past,” it said.
Disney had said in April that French actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey will play a mermaid in the Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Walt Disney Pictures production. Depp has said he’s willing to star in seven Pirates movies. The first three films in the series have grossed more than $2.7 billion worldwide.
