Pre-production will begin this month, with principal photography anticipated to begin in February, 2015.
Other recent productions to film in Australia include the forthcoming 3D disaster flick San Andreas and Unbroken, which was directed by Angelina Jolie.
Pirates 5 is slated for release in 2017, and it will be directed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg. Johnny Depp will reprise his role as Jack Sparrow, and Orlando Bloom has suggested he may return to the series as well. Katie Williams is a freelance writer and games journalist. She tweets at @desensitisation and hopes that one day, a bird will tweet back.