Pirates of the Caribbean: End in Sight?

A few more days and it's finally time: the fourth part of the world-famous "Pirates of the Caribbean" will be released. This part has the title "On Stranger Tides" and will, as the first part in the series, also be shown in 3D. All previous three parts were a large success, so we are eagerly awaiting this new part with high expectations, in which Captain Jack Sparrow and Barbasso go looking for the fountain of eternal youth.

Trilogy

In 2003 the first part of "Pirates of the Caribbean" was released, entitled "The Curse of the Black Pearl". Despite scepticism about the in the past often failed pirate theme, this part became a huge success, won no less than 26 prizes and was also nominated for another 68. Of course this motivated director Gore Verbinski to release another part in 2006, this time with the title "Dead Man's Chest". Within two days the film had already brought in 100 million dollars and thereby broken a record. With 29 prizes, this film even surpassed the first part of the Pirates series, although the amount of nominations was significantly lower. This time the media and the public were not surprised and the director had already seen the success coming from afar: the shooting of part three, "At World's End", had started before the second part's premiere. This film was released in 2007. This third part of the trilogy "only" won 16 prizes, but this did not discourage Gore Verbinski to dive into a fourth part, "On Stranger Tides", two years later. The huge success of this by now four-part film series is of course mostly due to the comical part of Jack Sparrow, played by none other than Johnny Depp.

Darkride and shoot-the-chute

After the large cinema successes of "Pirates of the Caribbean", the Jack Sparrow video games, books and board games shot up like mushrooms. In various Disneyland theme parks, "Pirates of the Caribbean" rides were opened in the form of a darkride (theme ride) and shoot-the-chute (rapids). Wrong. What few people know, is that these rides already existed before the film series, and even formed the basis for it. The first Pirates of the Caribbean ride was opened in 1967 and in it you made a boat trip past pirates and canons with in the background the Disney song "Yoho (A Pirate's Life for Me)", also used in the film. The moving Barbossa and Jack Sparrow dolls weren't added until 2003, and therefore not until after the release of "The Curse of the Black Pearl".

Future for Jack Sparrow?

The script for a fifth part has been finished by now and there are already plans for a sixth part of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Johnny Depp, however, is slightly less enthusiastic. According to him the schooting schedule for the second and third part of the film series was too heavy, since there was only a year's time between both premieres and the shooting was done mostly simultaneously. Depp thinks it's time for a break. "They should be special, just like they are special to me," he says. So the fifth part of the film will most likely have to wait for a while, and in the meantime the real Pirates fans will have to entertain themselves with the first four parts.

Sources: www.todio.nl