Walt Disney has released a new trailer forPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth installment in thePirates of the Caribbeanfranchise. The movie featuresJohnny Deppreturning to his role of Jack Sparrow, as well asOrlando Bloomback as Will Turner, the young adventurer that Sparrow took under wing in the first movie, as they square off against the terrifying ghost pirate Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem).
The biggest mistakePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tidesmakes is that it thinks Jack Sparrow is a protagonist, and he’s not. He works as a colorful supporting character who has his own agenda. The trailers forDead Men Tell No Taleshave really pulled back on showing Sparrow, and it’s not exactly clear why. A more cynical approach would assume that audiences have cooled toward Depp, and that he’s not the draw he was in years past. A more generous reading is that the new movie puts Jack Sparrow back in his place, and that the reason this new trailer gives more time to new characters played byKaya ScodelarioandBrenton Thwaitesis that they fill the Elizabeth and Will roles that helped balance out Jack. Pair that with a greater emphasis on the villain, one who has a personal relationship to Jack, and thePiratesfranchise, which appeared exhausted, looks promising once again.
The latestPirates of the Caribbeanmovie is directed byJoachim RønningandEspen Sandberg, the duo behind the foreign adventure filmKon-Tiki. The screenplay comes fromIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullscribeJeff Nathanson. Depp and Bloom star alongsideDavid Wenham, Geoffrey Rush,Keith Richards, andPaul McCartney(Yes, that Paul McCartney).
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Taleswill hit theaters nationwide on May 26th, 2017. Here’s the new trailer:
Here’s the official synopsis forPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales:
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar (Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea…including him. Captain Jack’s only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.
