Walt Disney has announced that Sam Clafin has joined the cast of “Pirates Of The Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides” in the key role of Philip of a youth missionary who undoubtedly gets mixed up in the not so virtuous deeds of one Jack Sparrow. He beats out Max Irons (Jeremy Irons son) for the role that has been described as the replacement part for the absent Orlando Bloom (though we doubt he’ll replace the character and instead will take on a similar kind of role).
If you’re wondering who Clafin is, he’s relative newcomer who only has two credits to his name: the historical mini-series “The Pillars Of The Earth” (which also happens to have fellow POTC 4 star Ian McShane) and the Syfy TV movie “The Lost Future.”
Clafin, like Astrid Berges-Frisbey announced yesterday, is making quite a leap into mainstream Hollywood joining also includes Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush and Stephen Graham in this big budget production directed by Rob Marshall. The film will start shooting this summer in Hawaii and will hit theaters on May 20, 2011.
