Jerry Bruckheimer is apparently enlisting Jack Davenport [The Wedding Date, The Talented Mr Ripley] for the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.
Davenport will reprise his role as haughty Commodore Norrington, who, in the first film, fancied himself Elizabeth’s [Kiera Knightley] fiance. Davenport’s required on set in March.
It’s believed Martin Klebba will also be back to reprise his role as ‘Marty’, and that newcomer Bobby Waldron has also scored a part
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On a related note, the movie is setting up shop in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Assistant locations manager Brooke Brunson was tapped to pick beefy backdrops for Pirates of the Caribbean 2, because shes spent 13 years on the nearby Bequia when she was growing up, and knows the area like a needle does a thread.
“I’m thrilled. I’m pretty much the only person from that country to work in film,” said Brunson”. I remember in the first film they said, “You’re the needle in the haystack”.
Brunson said St. Vincent was picked as the film’s location because of its relatively undeveloped coast.
“You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find a bay in the Caribbean without a Hilton [Hotel],” Brunson said.
Brunson said set workers created a version of the historical Jamaican pirate haven of Port Royal along a portion of the island’s coast, an area she described as having “one road into town and one road out.”
Because of the terrain difficulties and the number of movie facilities built on boats and barges in the bay, the crews rented almost all of the speedboats on the island to ferry filmworkers across sometimes rough seas.
“If you’re seasick or have any problem with water, you cannot do this,” she said.
But any daily aggravation from the seas was short-lived.
“At the end of the day you walk off set and you’re having wine with Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Depp,” Brunson said.
Filming will take place on the Island until May or June.
Credit: Moviehole.net
