Okay… film opens at night. Spanish fisherman spots something in the water. A Shape. He fishes out what he soon discovers is the body of an ancient sailor. The boat’s captain rushes over for a look - - before he can make his assessment, the thought-dead sailor’s eyes open. Sailor grabs Captain’s arm… fade out. The Captain and his aide then arrive at the regal residents of King Ferdinand, with said body, who inform the royal that the not-so-dead sailor claims to have sailed on a vessel belonging to the ship of Ponce de Leon, who died 200 years ago. Ferdinand’s first thought is that the sailor has found the legendary Fountain of Youth. He orders ‘The Spaniard’ to hit the seas in search of it. Everything I’m hearing about On Stranger Tides is that it’s shaping up very good - Rob Marshall has apparently reigned it in, doing a film that’s more akin to the original Pirates than those sink-and-all sequels. All this week the filmmakers have been shooting in San Juan. From what I’ve heard we will get our first look at Pirates 4 in December, trailered before Tron Legacy.
