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Pirates Of The Caribbean Completely Invades Free Comic Book Day For 2017

Published Mon, 01 May 2017 14:30:04 -0500

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is out on May 26th.

But on May 6th, it will be dominating Free Comic Book Day with back page or inside cover ads across most of the Silver level Free Comic Book Day titles. It's this kind of promotional activity that will pay for other awareness raising activities, or promotion in kind from Disney's vast tentacles.

It does, however, mean, that there is a sudden uptick in full page colour photos of skulls in all the comics being handed out to the little kiddywinks, from Miraculous to Animal Jam to Brave Chef Brianna and Fresh Off The Boat.

The next generation of goth starts right here.

Although, even though all these comic books are coming to the UK – unlike Attack On Titan and Disney's Descendants, the advertising will be wasted on us, as the movie will be called Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge over here.

An upcoming American fantasy swashbuckler film, and the fifth instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. The film is directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg from a script by Jeff Nathanson, with Jerry Bruckheimer serving again as producer. Johnny Depp, Kevin McNally and Geoffrey Rush reprise their roles as Jack Sparrow, Joshamee Gibbs and Hector Barbossa, respectively. The film also stars Javier Bardem as Armando Salazar, Brenton Thwaites as Henry Turner and Kaya Scodelario as Carina Smyth. The film also features the returns of Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley as Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann respectively, following their absence from the fourth instalment, On Stranger Tides.

The filmmakers cited the first instalment, The Curse of the Black Pearl, as inspiration for the script and tone of the film. Pre-production for the film started shortly before On Stranger Tides was released in early 2011, with Terry Rossio writing a script for the film. In early 2013, Jeff Nathanson was hired to write a new script, with Depp being involved in Nathanson's writing process. Initially planned for a 2015 release, the film was delayed to 2016 and then to 2017, due to script and budget issues. Principal photography started in Australia in February 2015, after the Australian government offered Disney $20 million of tax incentives, and ended in July 2015. It is set to be released in conventional, Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D formats on May 26, 2017.

While a graphic novel of the movie is released at the end of May from Joe Books.