Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp missing in action

WHERE’S Johnny? That’s the multimillion-dollar question being asked on the Gold Coast set of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Johnny Depp at the Brisbane Airport. Pic Annette Dew

THE Pirates of the Caribbean set has been left high and dry again as star Johnny Depp is missing in action.

The actor, who anchors the $250 million production, failed to board his scheduled private charter flight from Los Angeles — and has now been missing for a week.

He was due to fly back to Brisbane last Monday so he could return to work on the Gold Coast set of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales when principal photography resumes today.

However, a senior production source said Depp was still in the US.

“Everyone’s hoping they have managed to get him on another flight,” the source said.

“But he still hadn’t hopped on a plane on Friday morning, which means production will already be running behind when principal photography starts again. Even if he managed to fly out over the weekend, the delay has forced the directors to change their shot lists for the week. They’ve had to rearrange what they can and can’t shoot before filming starts again.”

Cameras stopped rolling on the Walt Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer co-production last month after Depp injured himself at Mick Doohan’s luxurious Coomera compound on March 8-9.

Sources said Depp, who had been staying at the waterfront property since he arrived in Australia in late February, hurt his hand when he hit a glass door after a heated phone conversation with his new wife Amber Heard following a “weekend bender” with friends.

Depp returned to the US on March 11 to seek treatment and was initially expected to be back on deck Down Under two weeks later.

However, more than 200 crew members were subsequently stood down without pay when filming ground to a halt.

 

 

 

​Oscar-winning Pirates cast members Javier Bardem and Geoffrey Rush, newcomers Brenton Thwaites and Kaya Scodelario and crew members including art, ​wardrobe, construction and catering staff are due back at work today.

“It’s quite unprofessional of Johnny to leave everyone waiting and wondering what’s happening,” a crew member said.

Depp, who married US actress Heard in a civil ceremony at their Los Angeles home on February 3, has not been seen in public since his flight home.

Heard, who turns 29 on Wednesday, was photographed at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, on the weekend but Depp was nowhere to be seen.

Depp’s Pirates deckhands Kevin McNally and Martin Klebba posed for photos and signed autographs for fans at the Supanova Pop Culture Convention on the Gold Coast on the weekend, while fellow castmates Bardem and Scodelario joined Pirates co-producer Bruckheimer and Dead Men Tell No Tales co-director Joachim Ronning at the Titans match.