Former “Deadwood” star Ian McShane will play Captain Jack Sparrow’s archrival in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie.
The Lancashire-raised actor, 67, will play pirate Blackbeard in the upcoming film “On Stranger Tides.”
McShane will join new castmember Penelope Cruz, according to London’s Daily Mail.
In the film, due for release in May 2011, English pirate Blackbeard will battle Captain Jack as they hunt for the “fountain of youth.”
Oscar winner Cruz was cast in the film by Rob Marshall – who recently directed her in “Nine” – and will play a tough-talking daughter of a professor.
Cruz’s character will be kidnapped by Blackbeard and rescued by Johnny Depp‘s Captain Jack.
A film insider said: ‘Ian’s really looking forward to the role. It’ll give him plenty of opportunity to go over the top. It’s going to be a lot of fun.
‘Penelope’s character’s a real tough cookie. She’ll be Sparrow’s equal in many ways.’
McShane earned a Golden Globe for Best Actor in the Western TV show “Deadwood.”
In real life, Blackbeard was a pirate from Bristol, whose name was Edward Teach.
The pirate was struck fear in the hearts of sailors during his high seas reign from 1713-1718, aboard his ship “Queen Anne’s Revenge.”
Teen mom Bristol Palin will play herself on a TV show.
She will be on an upcoming episode of ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” it was announced Tuesday. She will appear as one of Amy’s (Shailene Woodley) friends at a music program for teen mothers. The show will air in the summer.
“I am thrilled to be on this show and to be a part of a program that educates teens and young adults about the consequences of teen pregnancy,” Palin, 19, told UsMagazine in a statement.
Executive producer Brenda Hampton said, “Bristol Palin is the most famous teenage mother in America. We’re thrilled to have her join us, and I think she will bring additional attention to the issues facing teen parents that we’ve been exploring for a couple of seasons now.”
Hipness can be so fleeting, as the editor of the New Yorker magazine discovered recently.
David Remnick, editor of the magazine, surprised readers when he was quoted as saying that his book about President Barack Obama would be more than just a “pimped-out” version of the article he wrote for the magazine about the president.
It seems Remnick was misquoted.
A New York Times ArtsBeat blog post carried a correction yesterday stating that Remnick had said “pumped-up” — not “pimped-out.”
With previous roles in the zombie movie “Shaun Of The Dead,” Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis‘ latest film project is just as creepy.
Pegg, 40, and Serkis, 45, play Edinburgh serial killers William Burke and William Hare respectively in the new dark-comedy film “Burke and Hare.”
Dressed in Georgian clothing, the actors were spotted in a dark and gloomy-looking old fishmarkete near Edinburgh’s Royal Mile last night.
The real-life Burke and Hare, who were from Ireland, were responsible for the deaths of at least 17 people over a year in 1827.
After murdering their victims, the pair then went on to sell the bodies to Dr. Robert Knox, who dissected them in his anatomy classes at Barclay’s anatomy school in Surgeon’s Square.
The pair were eventually caught when one of their lodgers tipped off the police after finding the body of their last victim, Marjory Campbell Docherty, under her bed.
Prosecutors lacked hard evidence so Hare was given immunity from prosecution for testifying against Burke – he was found guilty and hanged in January 1829.
After serving a short time in prison, Hare was released in February 1829 and left Edinburgh, never to be seen again.
The movie, directed by John Landis, who was responsible for Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, started filming on location in London and Edinburgh earlier this month.
— lsmith@denverpost.com
