![]() ![]() ![]() It’s true that Disney’s then-CEO Michael Eisner insisted on the clunky subtitle – one that director Gore Verbinski detested – in order to leave the door open for sequels, but that was only after he had cancelled production on the film following the disastrous performances of Disney’s prior theme park-based films, Mission to Mars and The Country Bears. It was also possible no one would get to write another pirate movie ever again. As screenwriter Ted Elliott put it:īasically we thought we may never get to write another pirate movie ever again. Now, a major movie studio was spending upwards of $150 million on a pirate movie – one based on a theme park ride, no less. Like westerns, the pirate movie had steadily fallen out of favor since its heyday in the mid-20th century, culminating in the apocalyptic failure of 1995’s Cutthroat Island. What do you do when you’re asked to make a sequel to the last pirate movie anyone would ever make?ĭuring production on the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, there was a very real sense that the creative team behind it had conned a major studio into making a movie that should never have existed, a film that would be the last of its kind. ![]()
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