PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4: ON STRANGER TIDES bids “Aloha” to Hawaii

Director Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, is scheduled to wrap its Hawaiian location filming on Oahu on Friday, August 13th. Scenes this week were filmed “in a large warehouse near Honolulu International Airport where some mega sets have been built,” reports AlohaUpdate.com. This site has been inaccessible to the public, unlike the previous two weeks when On Stranger Tides filmed scenes aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge in Kaneohe Bay, and hundreds of people waited at He’eia Pier every day to see Johnny Depp. When the production leaves Hawaii at the end of its two-month shoot, Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer’s production companies will have spent around $100 million in Hawaii, according to the local media. That’s an enormous boost for the economy in these tough times.

After filming concludes on Oahu, the production is scheduled to move to Los Angeles, where a set is under construction on the Universal lot, and to Pinewood Studios in the UK for soundstage work.

The Zone thanks Theresa, Emma, and Dharma_bum for updates on Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides. You can read much more about the production on the Zone’s News & Views forum.