Pirates of the Caribbean: Past, Present & Future

[vacationland]

I'm kind of intrigued by the casting of Bootstrap Bill...wonder how they'll handle it? Flashback?

Speaking of Pirate Daddies, I'm curious if they'll go along with Johnny D's stated wish to cast Keith Richards (the inspiration for his portrayal of Jack Sparrow, in terms of look and manner) for a cameo as Sparrow Sr.? I'm thinking that would be hilarious...you know Depp would be digging it hard. Wonder if Keef is/was available or interested?

[livviebway]

I believe I read somewhere (Newsweek? Maybe?) that Keith Richards does indeed have a cameo. Just a very small one, but I *think* we should see him in there!

[jdkwfan4ever]

***SPOILERS***










Now, for the big guns... literally. One of our biggest franchises to date is "Pirates of the Caribbean." This film surpassed even our greatest expectations. Worldwide, it made more than $650 million at the box-office and sold more than 30 million DVD and VHS units. In total, "Pirates" has already generated more than $1.2 billion in total revenues in the first 19 months since opening.

And now we have 2 more "Pirates" adventures in the works, both of which are huge company-wide priorities. Coming summer of 2006 and summer 2007 are the much-anticipated "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and "3".

And since you're a special audience, I think we can do better than that. We haven't announced this yet, and you're the first audience outside the company to hear the title of the latest installment of this fantastic saga: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest".

And everybody is back for both sequels. We have the original producer, Jerry Bruckheimer; original director, Gore Verbinski; and of course, our original cast is on board--Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley... plus a few other casting surprises.

This time around, Johnny returns as Captain Jack Sparrow and is caught in yet another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. It turns out, Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. If Jack can't figure a crafty way out of this one, he'll be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation. And as if that weren't enough, Captain Jack's problems throw a huge wrench into the wedding plans of the blissful Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who quickly find themselves thrust into Jack's misadventures.

Suffice it to say, we think "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" will be the must-see movie of the 2006 summer season.

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Who is this "We" that you speak of?

(I so wanted to begin that sentence with a sincere "Um" but I know that's frowned upon. So I'll put it last. "Um."

[vacationland]

Looks like a cut-and-paste of the text of a press release (or announcement) given to marketing people or theater owners (perhaps at a ShoWest-type event)? I don't think the poster wrote it.

[Deleted]

Hee! Past, Present and Futu. "What does the futu hold, Mr. Science?"

Good name for this thread, though. PotC:CotBP is the best movie experience I've had in a longlong time for taking me back to when I was a kid and "the pictures" were new and exciting and something you got dressed up for and couldn't wait for the new one to open at the Roxy in New Brighton (on the coast east of Christchurch, NZ) where movies always had cartoons and/or another short before the main feature and during the intermission they'd have people selling ice cream & other treats from trays in the auditorium... albatross! stormy petrel on a stick!...and you could sit in the front row of the balcony and throw stuff down at yobs you didn't like. That's what the first PotC was for me, a couple hours of being a kid again.

As for where the series should go in the futu, I think katiebear3 nailed it: lesbian pirates. Oh, yeah, and Keef!!!

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Here's the trailer[/color]. It looks really good.

[jynni]

Where's the trailer? I'm having trouble navigating that site.

[jazz]

Hm. I saw this movie on TV last month and was not impressed at all. No desire to see the second or the third one. And boy, Orlando Bloom acted like a piece of plank.

[tamaradixon]

Never mind, was posting the trailer link and didn't see it above! d'oh!