Actress Penelope Cruz was part of the fourth movie of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise entitled “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” shown in 2011.
She took on the role of lady pirate Angelica back then and her entry into the movie series was just right as Keira Knightley decided to move on from the franchise by abandoning her Elizabeth Swann character after being involved in the first three movies.
There were reports as early as last year that Penelope Cruz shall be reprising her role in the fifth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise. It heated up once again this year weeks after the movie had a three-week filming extension over in Vancouver, Canada from end-March to mid-April this year.
The rumors actually originated from the fact that Penelope Cruz was spotted on the Australian set of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” early last year.
It turns out that the actress was there because she was just visiting her husband Javier Bardem, who is the one who has been made as part of the cast of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men No Tales” to take on the role of the villainous Captain Salazar, reports Youth Health Mag.
It can be recalled that it was also in April last year when the former wife of Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, also visited her former husband on the set using a private jet and also brought along their Yorkshire pet dogs. Amber Heard was never rumored to be part of “Pirates of the Caribbean 5” but she got embroiled in a legal mess with the Australian Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources for not subjecting their pet dogs to local quarantine laws.
The ministry had Barnaby Joyce as Minister back then who formalized the lodging of the case against Amber Heard. Joyce is now the Australian Deputy Prime Minister.
Last April, Amber Heard went back to Australia and pleaded guilty to violating local quarantine laws. She did not serve jail time but it is sure that she was meted a penalty for her offense.
Not in the casting
The official casting of “Pirates of the Caribbean 5” as listed on Coming Soon.net does not include Penelope Cruz.
The full list includes Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Kevin R. McNally, Stephen Graham, Golshifteh Farahani, Kaya Scodelario, Brenton Thwaites, Orlando Bloom, and Paul McCartney.
A production of Walt Disney Pictures, the movie is set to hit the big screens on May 26, 2017 under the direction of Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg.
The plot summary of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” details that Captain Jack Sparrow, to be played by Johnny Depp as usual, will find the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the very terrifying Captain Salazar, escapes from the Devil’s Triangle.
He promised to kill every pirate at sea including Captain Jack, who must seek out the legendary Trident of Poseidon to save himself. The artifact bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.
Tying loose ends
Although the fifth movie of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise has already completed filming last year, a three-week extension of the production was held in Vancouver, Canada beginning on March 24, which was meant to tie loose ends and plug all the loopholes in the overall filming.
While it was an added cost on the part of Disney Pictures as reports have it that “Pirates of the Caribbean 5” is gunning to be the most expensive movie that was produced in history. Unconfirmed reports place the movie budget to have gone past $500 million and it looks to balloon some more before its May 2017 release date to global theaters.
However, reports later came out to confirm that the extended shooting in Vancouver, Canada was not meant to re-shoot some of the scenes of the film but actually was made to accommodate the entry of Beattle’s great Sir Paul McCartney into the franchise.