Director Gore Verbinski who helmed the first Pirates trilogy is out, replaced by the man behind musicals Chicago and Nine, Rob Marshall (Myhre, Marshall's regular designer, is also new to the series). And the roster of new talent isn't just onscreen. McNally's sidekick Gibbs return, the emphasis is decidedly on new faces, including young British actor Sam Claflin, who plays earnest young missionary Philip, and French actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey as a seductive mermaid.
While Geoffrey Rush's Barbossa - now with a peg leg - and Kevin R. On Stranger Tides sends Jack Sparrow on a quest to find the legendary Fountain of Youth, tangling with a mysterious woman from his past, Angelica, played by Penelope Cruz, as well as the most feared pirate on the high seas - Captain Blackbeard - played by Deadwood's Ian McShane, who just might also have blood ties to Cruz's character. Who indeed? Although a quick glance at the film's press release and cast list, not to mention the aforementioned watering hole's name, offers plenty of clues. So who in the world is in London, at the Captain's Daughter Pub here, trying to recruit a crew?" "But he's Jack Sparrow, and he's not in London. "The reason Jack's here in London is that he heard that 'Jack Sparrow' is trying to crew a ship," continues Myhre. He jumps down, goes through this door, this is our Captain's Daughter Pub." We're ushered into the cramped London boozer. So the soldiers run around the corner and then the camera comes back and finds Jack hanging up here. What we don't know is that Jack jumped off onto a pub sign.
"We're almost like the soldiers chasing Jack Sparrow right now," he enthuses, "coming around the corner and we don't see him. We shot at Little Temple on Saturday, and it looked fabulous." Sadly we're too late to see the chase but Myhre proves to be not just a gracious guide but a one-man-plot-spoiler, walking us through a virtual play-by-play account of the chase's climax. "You see Jack going from undertaker carriage to a rich lady's carriage and finally jump on the back of a pull cart, which bursts into flames, running through London. As such, it helps to have two-time Oscar-winner Myhre take us on a personal tour of the 18th century London backstreets his team have recreated, which provide the setting for a carriage-top chase sequence with Captain Jack fleeing the king's men.