Rønning and Sandberg are no strangers to the high seas, having directed the Academy Award-nominated Kon-Tiki, which tells the true story of explorer Thor Heyerdal and his astonishing 4,300 mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947. The duo will succeed both Rob Marshall and Gore Verbinski in the director's chair(s) for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 having fought off competition from the likes of Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) and Fredrik Bond (The Neccessary Death of Charlie Countryman).
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has been written by Jeff Nathanson (whose previous sequel credits include Speed 2: Cruise Control, Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) and is expected to go into production in January ahead of a release on July 10th, 2015.