Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Filming Underway

The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie is officially underway as filming has commenced in Australia.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer tweeted out, “We just started filming a new Pirates of the Caribbean in Australia. Captain Jack is back.”

Bruckheimer also included the following set image revealing a look at Johnny Depp as Captain Jack:

Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has a July 7, 2017 release directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, and also starring Javier Bardem, Kaya Scodelario,Brenton Thwaites, Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa, Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs and Stephen Graham as Scrum.

Synopsis:

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 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.