The prison yard, where Barbossa ( Geoffrey Rush) threatens to hang Gibbs, is the courtyard at the beautifully preserved 17th century Knole House, Knole Lane, Sevenoaks, in Kent. The dockyard street and the ‘Captain’s Daughter’ inn were built at Pinewood, but there’s one more English location. The chase through the streets of London (with the tiniest cameo from Judi Dench in the coach) once more uses the extensive grounds of the Royal Naval College. The entrance staircase is the real Greenwich, but the King’s dining room is another elaborate set at Pinewood. You won’t find this in the Painted Hall.īy the time Jack swings from the chandelier and crashes through the window, you’ve probably realised that this is a studio set. Then things start to look a little odd, as King George ( Richard Griffiths) enters through a secret door. We’re soon back in the Old Royal Naval College as Jack is dragged into the entrance to the extravagant Painted Hall, which you can see in films such as The Madness Of King George, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella. For its most famous screen ‘appearance’ in the Oscar-winning A Man For All Seasons, a set was used. Oddly, Hampton Court is rarely seen on screen, though it did appear in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Terrence Malick’s The New World, and Bryan Singer's 2013 Jack The Giant Slayer, and its formal gardens stand in for those of ‘Buckingham Palace’ at the end of Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory Of Everything. Originally built in 1514 for Cardinal Wolsey, the palace became a royal residence when it was taken over and expanded by King Henry VIII. Īfter the trial, Jack and Gibbs find themselves transported to ‘St James’ Palace’, which is the courtyard of Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey in Surrey. Studio interiors were in fact filmed in the UK, at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, which is where the courtroom in which Gibbs ( Kevin McNally) is tried by the oddly kohl-eyed judge was built. On Stranger Tides also becomes the first in the franchise to feature old England, with a digital St Paul’s Cathedral looming over the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10, standing in – as it so often does – for the streets of London (except of course for Les Misérables, where it stands in rather less convincingly for the streets of old Paris). Pirates Of The Caribbean, On Stranger Tides location: the streets of ‘London’: Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London You can now visit the fort as part of San Juan National Historic Site.Īnd at the end of the film, the desert island on which Captain Jack ( Johnny Depp) leaves Angelica ( Penelope Cruz) stranded is Palominito, a small cay about four miles off the coast of Fajardo, on Puerto Rico’s eastern tip. About a third of the structure was demolished in 1897 ease the flow of traffic in and out of the city. Entry to the city was sealed by San Cristóbal's double gates, virtually encircling the city. Also known as Fort San Cristóbal, the fortification was built in 1783 by Spain to protect against attacks on the city of San Juan. The ‘Cadiz’ fort, in which the old man fished out of the sea reveals the existence of the Fountain of Youth to the Spanish, is Castillo San Cristóbal in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The only locations in the Caribbean are found on Puerto Rico, at the very beginning and end of the film. Unlike Depp, Bloom has hinted about his openness to return for Pirates of the Caribbean 6.There’s very little of the Caribbean for the fourth in the series, as a new director comes aboard and a starts a new storyline.įor the first time, there’s no St Vincent at all. Pirates of the Caribbean may also lack other recurring actors such as Orlando Bloom, who played former-blacksmith-turned-pirate Will Turner in the original series. Captain Jack Sparrow has been the series’ iconic protagonist since 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, so it will be difficult for the series for forge ahead without him. Without Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean 6 will shape up to be a lot different from the first five films. Both Depp’s drama with ex-partner Amber Heard and his already-announced exit as Jack Sparrow make his return to the Pirates of the Caribbean series seem unlikely, despite Bruckheimer’s support of Depp. This time, Bruckheimer doubles down on his fondness for the actor, subtly defending Depp against his rocky image in the public eye in the process. This is not the first time Bruckheimer has expressed interest in working with Depp again for Pirates of the Caribbean.
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