MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Most post-2001 Russell Crowe movies underperform. He hit a stride and then tapered off.
Not that I don't enjoy most of his work. We'll see if ROBIN HOOD hits the mark.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
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Most post-2001 Russell Crowe movies underperform. He hit a stride and then tapered off.
Not that I don't enjoy most of his work. We'll see if ROBIN HOOD hits the mark.
Re: Emh
There is definitely a script. The writers of the first three films wrote this one before moving onto The Lone Ranger. Johnny Depp is signed, and apparently Disney is close to signing a director (Gore Verbinski is out, Rob Marshall is said to be circling the project).
There is definitely a script. The writers of the first three films wrote this one before moving onto The Lone Ranger. Johnny Depp is signed, and apparently Disney is close to signing a director (Gore Verbinski is out, Rob Marshall is said to be circling the project).
Okay, I simply have been out of the loop. Thanks for the update.
Oh yay, another Space Octopus...
The third PotC movie isn't a bad film by any means; it's just not as good as the first or second, and I think the reason is that they put so much emphasis on Barbosa's return that they killed all the heat and momentum they'd developed with regards to Davy Jones and his character so that the resolution of the story fell flat. It'll be interesting to see how this new film plays out, but I'd like it to set up a new overall story arc that could possibly be continued in future films, because that, to me, is one of the franchise's strengths.
Agreed!
"Another space octopus"? Where was the first space octopus? How did I miss that?
Star Trek XI. The nickname for Narada up in the Trek XI forum was Space Octopus before the name Narada was released due to a script description which described it as "octopus shaped."
I still maintain that the little kid at the end of 3 is actually Jack (rejuvenated after an accident at the Fountain of Youth), and NOT the child of Keira and Orlando's characters.
--Ted
--Ted
Works for me!
I'm currently reading On Stranger Tides and liking it so far. If Disney has bought the rights, I think it could make the basis of an entertaining film.
I think the third movie's main problem was more that it took seriously things the other two had made fun of (or at least treated lightly). It also was at turns notably by-the-numbers (particularly at the end) and overly weird (particularly in Davey Jones's Locker and Shipwreck Cove). It also suffered a moral problem in equating piracy with Freedom (as opposed to equating only Jack's brand of piracy - really only Grand Theft Interceptor - with freedom).
It seemed unable to decide whether it wanted to be fun, weird, or an epic. The first two were just clever and fun (and adept at confounding expectations with intelligence).
Confirmation that they have:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=59830
It does seem, as I suspected, to be a case of buying the rights because the story matched the movie story and they didn't want any trouble:
Terry Rossio said:
^
Cool news. Powers is quite right, his main character of Jack Shandy is not at all similar to Captain Jack; if anything, the character of Captain Phil Davies could overlap with Sparrow. I just got introduced to Blackbeard in the novel, so it's too early to see how much comparison to Barbossa can be drawn.
I'm wondering if they'll cast a female lead based on the Beth Hurwood character from the novel.
Cool news. Powers is quite right, his main character of Jack Shandy is not at all similar to Captain Jack; if anything, the character of Captain Phil Davies could overlap with Sparrow. I just got introduced to Blackbeard in the novel, so it's too early to see how much comparison to Barbossa can be drawn.
I'm wondering if they'll cast a female lead based on the Beth Hurwood character from the novel.
