Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 script being rewritten
The fifth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie won't be sailing just yet, as rewrite work has been ordered...
It was around the time of the release of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides last year that it was revealed that Terry Rossio had put the guts of a script together for a fifth adventure. Rossio, who has co-written all four films to date, had presumably been put to work early, so that Disney could turn a fifth film around quickly.
The thing is, while On Stranger Tides went on to take over $1bn at the worldwide box office (albeit with the franchise's lowest US box office take to date), the story problems with it were there for all to see. Even the most charitable Pirates fan would surely have to concede that the latest film succeeded in spite of yet another muddled, lumbering screenplay. And whilst much was made of the change of director for the fourth Pirates film, we couldn’t help but think that the problem might not have been in that department.
Rob Marshall, who directed the fourth film, has now been nattering to Collider about the state of the fifth, which seems to indicate that he might be returning to the director’s chair for it. And it seems that the Pirates 5 script is not quite as locked down as we’d thought.
Marshall said that “Terry is writing it and he’s working incredibly hard and he did a draft and rethought it all and started working on it again. You want to make sure you are asking the audience to come back to see an exciting adventure and it has to reach that caliber, and if not there’s no reason to do it."
"I know Johnny feels the same way", he continued. "He needs to see a script, but he would be happy — if it’s the right script — to put that hat and sword back on.”
Our suggestion: once that script has been written, get a few more people to read and critique it before committing a nine figure sum to make the film. Just a thought…
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Before there can be a good script, there has to be a good story. The Black Pearl was a good story. There are plenty of legends, folklore and mysterious history dealing with maritime happenings to draw upon, but the story line shouldn''t be overshadowed by its offshoots. Nor do the special effects need to be bigger and better with each succeeding movie. They just need to be of the same quality as in the first POTC. Depp, Zimmer, and a good cinematographer will do the rest, IMHO.
Everyone is so dramatic on here All of the pirate movies are great. Johnny depp is a great actor who always makes me laught in these movies. I think they couldve done a better job on the forth one. The romance wasn't that great. I loved will/elizabeths love story. I think the next idea for the romance should be where Angelica does have jack sparrows baby but he doesn't know it until he meets her unexpectedly years later when she starts talking about her. I also think that will and elizabeths child grows up and ends up falling in love with jack sparrows daughter. I just think that would be a great idea to add to the next movie
Um despite some negative comments about POTC 3 at worlds end, i thought it was better than the 4th POTC movie on stranger tides. Because POTC 3 had more classic characters, contained a romance that didnt suck, and the maelstrom scene? Totally beast!!! The fourth movie obviously had less of a budget, too new of characters, and exagerated the pirate legend blackbeard in the film, and the fact the entire black pearl crew is dead >:( totally pisses me off. I miss Marty
As long as they Keap Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley out of it i'm satisfied:)
As i said many times Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle would be cool or perhaps someplace near Africa like or Cape Horn near South America.
After all isn't it true that before Jack's ship got burned and sunk it was named the Wicked Wench and in his cargo he had African slaves that he freed, it was that which made Becket angry and so he ordered the ship to be sunk.
I want one of the kid slaves who's now a young grown up to be part of the main supporting cast