Actor Johnny Depp got his hand injured while he was in Gold Coast, Australia over the weekend and he had to cut short his filming for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” and rushed back to the US to undergo minor surgery.
The actor is playing the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the fifth installment of the widely successful pirate adventure movie.
Reports have it that Johnny Deep did not get his hand injured while filming but in between takes this past weekend although no detail has been made available yet as to how the actor hurt his hand.
The 51-year-old Depp will be returning to his 28-year-old newly-wedded wife Amber Heard in the US to take time off from his filming work while he recuperates from the minor surgery. Johnny and Amber tied the knot in private ceremonies on February 8 at the actor’s private island in the Bahamas.
Filming for the movie would not be delayed as a result of Johnny Depp’s injury and it is also expected that the actor would be back very soon fully recovered, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
A multi-million dollar collaboration
“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 yet.
With its US$250 million production budget, it is the largest movie ever filmed in Queensland, Australia to date.
In addition to Johnny Depp, the movie also stars Javier Bardem as the villainous Captain Salazar, Australian actor Geoffrey Rush who shall be reprising his role as Captain Barbossa, and Australian upstart actor Brenton Thwaites, who will play the role of a young British soldier.
Espen Sandbert and Joachim Ronning are directing the movie.
Unforeseen delays
Other than the hand injury to Johnny Deep, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” has had to contend with some unforeseen delays in light of a threat from a supposed pirate as well as a storm.
Apparently, a man dressed as a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder has had brushes with the film’s security after threatening them with a knife. The anonymous man eventually fled into the nearby bushland. Attending policemen who came to the scene was not able to locate the person. They also believed that the man was not serving as an extra to the film.
Some weeks back, a category 5 tornado, known as Cyclone Marcia, passed near the site of the filming of the movie. The cyclone crossed the coast close to Rockhampton on the Queensland coast, which was more than 700 kilometers north of the Gold Coast studio where the filming for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is taking place. The studio and the filming was spared from the cyclone.