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Gore Verbinski Talks ‘At Worlds End’ Problems and Pirates 4!

Liam — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:26:16 +0000

Just yesterday we talked about the possibility of a fourth Pirates film and the possible storyline. Now we have word from the director himself, Gore Verbinski.

Holding court as the keynote speaker at the video game-centric DICE Summit in Las Vegas, the director told the audience that his biggest problem with “At World’s End” was that it had just too many darn characters.

If Gore does end up directing the next pirates film, then that problem will probably not resurface. Will and Elizabeth will probably not return as we said yesterday, and the movie will focus on Jack Sparrow and Barbossa searching for the ‘Fountain Of Youth’. But Gore apparently hasn’t heard anything.

“Show me the script,” he said. “I look forward to reading the script for ‘Pirates 4.’”
Verbinski knows, of course, that because of the ongoing writers strike, such a task would be impossible. But, then, past “Pirates” movies have already been green-lit, and even given a concrete release date, without a final screenplay.
Try it again and you’ll lose Verbinski, the director insisted.
“The process of having release dates and no script is not something I’m dying to go through again. I would have to pull the gun out of my mouth [first],” he said. “The reason I did 2 and 3, honestly, was because I still thought there was something to do there. I don’t want to be involved in, you know, ‘Rocky 9.’ ”

Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 Rumblings

Liam — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:25:19 +0000

I can remember reading something similar to this before, but I will talk about it anyway as it has come from the Disney know it all, Jim Hill

Now given that Bruckheimer & Disney do eventually hope to put a “Pirates 4″ into production (A film that — I hear — would toss the Elizabeth & Will characters over the side in favor of doing a bawdy buddy picture which would star Jack Sparrow & Barbossa. Where both captains of the Black Pearl would initially be competing for the exact same prize. But eventually all the double crossing would have to stop as these two rivals were then forced to join forces in order to defeat some supernatural terror)

This seems the logical way to go as Keira Knightly has said she was done with the pirate world, Orlando Bloom seems to have taken a break from big budget movies by doing some stage work and a few people complained about the love story in the third film. So maybe a film filled with fun pirate action will be a breathe of fresh, or should I say sea, air.

While watching At Worlds End I grew to like Barbossa more and more. I hadn’t seen Geoffrey Rush in anything before the first Pirate movie, so I didn’t see him as an actor, I saw him as Barbossa. He was great in the role and to see him on screen again would be treat. Johnny Depp performs as always and is the natural entertainer, putting a possible fourth movie in the ‘eagerly awaiting’ category. Of course practically nothing is official or confirmed as of yet, only ideas being thrown around. The end of the last movie saw Jack Sparrow on the search for the Fountain Of Youth, which could be a rather cool storyline. However, apparently the third National Treasure movie may focus on the same topic, which is rather weird. Although the writers of Book Of Secrets just happen to have written the Pirates trilogy, so we can conclude that Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio have a fetish for fountains.

What are your thoughts on a possibly fourth outing?

Which 7 Movies are still in the Running for the 2007 Visual Effects Oscar?

Liam — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:52:30 +0000

ComingSoon have posted a list of the seven films that remain in contention for the Achievement in Visual Effects for the 80th Academy Awards. On Wednesday, January 16, members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch will watch a 15 minute excerpt from each film, and then nominate three who will go forward for the final consideration. Here they are:

The Golden Compass

Transformers

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

The Bourne Ultimatum

Evan Almighty

300

I Am Legend

Gore Verbinski talks Future of Pirates of the Caribbean

Liam — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:52:03 +0000

With the DVD for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End being released, there was bound to be someone talking about something regarding Jack Sparrow’s future. And who else better than director Gore Verbinski who spoke to MovieWeb.

Are you planning on doing a 4th part?
Gore Verbinski: I think the trilogy is now complete. All of the stories set in motion by the first film have been resolved. If there ever were another Pirates of the Caribbean film, I would start fresh and focus on the further adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.

There were rumours of this when Pirates 3 was released. Gore finished off the trilogy with Jack Sparrow and Barbossa hunting down ‘The Fountain Of Youth’ so that will probably be the focus of the next film, if anything is made at all. Disney could easily make another film, without Miss Knightly or Mr Bloom, and still make the kind of money the trilogy did. All they need is Jack Sparrow, and Barbossa…with his crew…and the monkey…and parrot.