There isn't a whole lot one can gleam from this photograph, but there is some. The image was posted with the message and hashtags "On your marks #pirates5 #jerrybruckheimerfilms #disney #australia;" which implies to us that those little pieces of tape are markers telling the various actors where to walk during the shooting. Whatever they're filming requires a lot of people moving in sinc in order for it to work. Those are a lot of tape marks.
Another thing that I think is fairly obvious is that that this is clearly being filmed on, what is supposed to be, the deck of a ship. I have no Idea what ship it is, it doesn't look like The Black Pearl. Plus there is some kind of creepy light emenating from the ships hull through those grates. Could this be Captain Salazar's vessel we're looking at?
Arguably the most exciting thing you might notice in the photo, is the garb of the people in shot. Several of the people are wearing unexciting standard pirate stuff, complete with sword-sheaths and boots. On these people there isn't anything there that gives away who they might be, other than pirates. The rest of the characters, however, are wearing a strange grey, black and white outfit that might look familiar to anyone who's seen behind-the-scenes photos of the other pirate films. Compare them to this set picture of Bill Nighy, the actor behind Davy Jones.
That's right! It looks as if there are going to be even more Davy-Jones-type CGI characters in POTC5! I'm super excited, and my brain is going wild with speculation. Is Davy Jones and his crew back? Is that Will Turner with a new version of the crew? or, more likely, are these Captain Salazar's ghost pirates? Davy Jones is still one of the most impressive CGI effects in movie history, I can't wait to see how the technology has improved.
In slightly less interesting news, there has been an Australian casting call for women with large breasts to play bit parts in POTC5. This information is more amusing than it is informative; but it still implies some possible plot threads for the film. Is it possible that Jack Sparrow and company will be returning to the port of Tortuga for some salty (Australian) wenches? That seems the most likely reason for this casting call. But who knows? Captains Salazar's ghost crew could consist of busty female ghosts.
The news trickle coming out of POTC5 has been obnoxiously slow. apparently Johnny Depp has injured his hand, and that is slowing down production as well as the info leaking out of production. With a little luck I'll be able to fill another Pirate New sooner rather than later.
