Resumption of filming for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” the fifth installment to the successful action adventure movie franchise from Disney Pictures, begins on April 20 with the expected return of lead actor Johnny Depp to the set in Gold Coast in Australia.
Unfortunately for the production staff, Johnny Depp, who plays the lead role of Captain Jack Sparrow, has yet to arrive and finish shooting the $250 million movie.
The actor was supposed to board his scheduled private charter flight from Los Angeles and be on Brisbane on April 13 so that he could start filming one week later but a source in the production says that Johnny Depp was still in the US.
Everyone on the production staff were hoping that he finally gets onboard the plane on April 17 so that he could at least be on the set when filming resumes on April 20 since shooting is already running behind schedule.
Changes due to delay
Even if Johnny Depp makes it to the set this week, he obviously caused at least a week of delay prompting film directors to change their shot lists for the week, reports Courier Mail.
Accordingly, they have revised and rearrange principal photography on those things that they can and can’t shoot before filming of the movie starts again.
Filming for “Pirates of the Caribbean” has been delayed by almost a month following the hand injury to Johnny Depp he sustained in the first week of March but was not related at all to the shooting of the movie. He flew back to the US to undergo a minor surgery in his hand.
The production staff still continued shooting without him as they filmed first the scenes that do not have Captain Jack Sparrow on it until they finished it on the last week of March.
On March 26, the production team has announced to some 200 crew that they would not be working for the next two weeks until the actor comes back to the set. Resumption of filming in the Gold Coast for the movie was initially set on April 15.
Moved back
Apparently, resumption of filming was pushed further to April 20 since it will also be the time when Johnny Depp was expected to be on the set already to complete the scenes of Captain Jack Sparrow.
A letter from the production company on April 10 advised employees that they should resume work as early as April 16 to allow for two days preparation. The production company also made travel arrangements for the production crew who needed to return to the city.
After more than three weeks of hiatus, everyone is roaring to get back to work and finish the job considering that the movie is a pretty huge production and requires a lot of people not only in the Gold Coast in Queensland but all across Australia.
The workers also expect that resumption of filming will no longer be pushed back any further since Johnny Depp would be back by then and that it would be more cost-efficient for the production company to get the job done soon than delay it any further. Unfortunately that was not the case.
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tells No Tales” is a multi-million dollar collaboration by Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Productions. It is due to hit theaters on July 7, 2017.