First Look At Ian McShane As Blackbeard On The Pirates 4 Set

Bad news for Hawaii-based movie and TV fans who are still mourning the loss of the Lost cast-- Johnny Depp has left your fair state as well. The shooting of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has apparently moved to Hawaii back to Los Angeles, where Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz were photographed on set. They also had someone new with them-- Ian McShane, in costume and giving us our first look at him as the film's villainous Blackbeard.

So little has been confirmed about the plot that it's impossible to know exactly what kind of role Blackbeard will be playing in the story about Jack's quest for the Fountain of Youth, but it's interesting that McShane, Cruz and Depp are all filming a scene together--I'd bet there was some swordplay going on that we don't see in these photos. It's unlikely that any particularly spoilery photos will hit the web, so for now we can only guess all the pirate-tinged dialogue going on between them in the scene.