With Johnny Depp as usual strapped to the mast as Captain Jack Sparrow and not one, but two directors (Kon-Tiki duo Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg) recruited, the fifth Pirates Of The Caribbea****n film, Dead Men Tell No Tales is gathering the rest of its scurvy crew. Aussie actor Brenton Thwaites has now won the coveted role on Henry.
Disney went on the usual casting splurge recently, looking at the likes of Kingsman’s Taron Egerton, Pride’s George MacKay and The Fault In Our Stars’ Ansel Elgort to fill the type of role once held by Orlando Bloom and, more recently, Sam Claflin in On Stranger Tides. Thwaites won out to play the dashing British soldier who will factor into the plot somehow.
With a script that has seen work from Jeff Nathanson, Dead Men Tell No Tales is busy building the cast, with offers out to Javier Bardem and Christoph Waltz and a rumoured return for some of the first four films’ actors to reunite alongside Depp. The fifth Pirates outing will set sail in cinemas on July 7, 2017.
Thwaites, seen this year in Maleficent and** The Giver**, has a few films coming up. He’ll next appear alongside Ewan McGregor in Son Of A Gun (due January 30) and then horror thriller The Signal, which arrives on February 13. And waiting in the wings for 2016, he has Alex Proyas’ Gods Of Egypt.