Walt Disney Pictures dropped the first Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales teaser trailer during the Season finale of Walking Dead on AMC. The trailer also premiered on YouTube.
Directed by Norwegian filmmakers Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning (Kon-Tiki), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will feature the return of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, Orlando Bloom as Will Turner and Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbosa. Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent, The Giver) plays a new character named Henry, and Paul McCartney has a role as well.
There’s the surprising entry of Academy Award winner Javier Bardem as the villainous Captain Salazar. Bardem is skilled at playing the psychopathic antagonist; case in point: he won the Oscar for playing the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men and his role as the Bond villain Raoul Silva in Sam Mendes’s Skyfall has been lauded by critics.
This will be the fifth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean anthology and Bardem is hopefully going to be the key ingredient that will revive the ailing franchise. The last film, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides did bring in box office collections but was not appreciated much by fans and critics.
