In a move that could have been predicted by that guy at the bus station who doesn’t wear pants and claims to be Jackie Onassis, Disney have announced that, after some debate, next summer’s fourquel “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” will be shot in “Disney Digital 3D.” Disney Digital 3D, as everybody knows, differs from your standard form of 3D in that it’s created in an enormous facility under EPCOT Centre by fairies, who weave it from dreams, wishes, and leftover merchandise from “Chicken Little.”
While the three-dimensionalization of the studio’s big 2011 tentpole was inevitable, it’s at least comforting that it’ll be shot in 3D, rather than getting a shoddy “Clash of the Titans”-style conversion. This way, we’ll get to see director Rob Marshall’s stagy, lifeless compositions in the form in which they were intended.
The latest issue of Production Weekly includes a synopsis for the film, confirming previous rumors about the plot involving a search for eternal life; “Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa meet in the newly founded New Orleans before setting out in a quest for the mythical Fountain of Youth.” The cast includes Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane, Stephen Graham and newcomers Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Sam Clafin, and filming begins June 14th.