Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Super Bowl TV spot opens with a zombie seagull and ends with the hashtag #PiratesLife, so that tells you about all you need to know about where the franchise has come since the first movie came out in 2003. It also takes a page from the Logan trailer and uses Johnny Cash to score the latest conflict on the high seas: the dead have taken over (because apparently they hadn’t before?), led by Javier Bardem’s decomposing Captain Salazar.
We also get a glimpse of one of our living protagonists, “brilliant and beautiful” astronomer Carina Smyth (The Maze Runner’s Kaya Scodelario), though not “headstrong young sailor” Henry (Brenton Thwaites). Watch for yourself:
Here’s the official synopsis from Disney:
Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea—notably Jack. Jack’s only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Brenton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifully small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has ever faced.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales comes to theaters May 26.
Call me crazy, but I’m at least decently intrigued by this. Mostly because I want to see how they reconcile this against 2 and 3, since a lot of those dead pirates look like Davy Jones’ crew, and the whole return of Will thing.
I am SO EXCITED for this and I don’t even care about the haters. I just want Elizabeth to be in this too (as rumored), because we all learned in #4 that though Jack is great, it’s the sum of ALL the original characters that really make this work.
So Will is turning…I am assuming the dead aren’t staying dead, and thus Will can’t fulfill his curse provision in ferrying them to the other side? Can he also not step on land? Should be interesting.
Have you all seen the new Jack poster that was released with this? Jack’s name is spelled wrong on his hand so I’m wondering if it’s a drunk pirate tattooist joke. Bonus if the right hand says “CAPT” because Jack was trying to get a tat to remind everyone…and then it still went wrong.
I’ve loved Will since day 1 and wouldn’t want to see him turning all Davey Jones-y, the trailer was a bit worrisome in that regard (though it’s good to have him back in any case). Interesting theory by mirana @2 regarding the possible reason behind the turning, I never thought of it, but maybe?