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The Film Corporation of Puerto Rico has confirmed that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will come to Puerto Rico to shoot some location sequences featuring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow and Penelope Cruz as Angelica. Mariella Perez Serrano, director of the Film Corporation, told Primera Hora, “We are delighted with this achievement that Pirates 4 will film, in part, in Puerto Rico.” The newspaper is reporting that Johnny Depp will come to Puerto Rico in mid-September, with filming to begin off the coast of Fajardo in the first week of October and last for approximately two weeks. “Much of the film activity will occur on the island of Palominitos,” the article says.

Puerto Rico was under consideration as the primary location for On Stranger Tides, but lost out to Hawaii, where filming concluded in mid-August. Johnny Depp knows the island well, having shot The Rum Diary there in the spring of 2009. “It was not a secret that Depp was in love with Puerto Rico and made that clear in several interviews in the United States,” reports Primera Hora. “The actor did not forget Puerto Rico.”

The Zone thanks Emma for posting several machine translations of articles from the Puerto Rican press. You can read them on the Zone’s News & Views forum.