Pirates Writer Calls Bullshit on Pirates 4 Rumors
Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides (2011) Movie — By Nix on October 14, 2008
Hey, screw you, Terry Rossio! How dare you tell us all these Pirates 4 rumors aren’t true! Who are you to break our hearts and shatter our dreams — except you would probably know more than we do. Ahem. Anyways, according to Terry Rossio, who along with partner Ted Elliott, wrote all three Pirates movies, not to mention seemingly every other successful Hollywood movie franchise since the dawn of time as well, all the rumors you’ve been hearing about Pirates 4 are bullshit. Rossio doesn’t go on to say anymore than that, except that Disney is “too protective of their franchises for that sort of thing”, whatever that means.
Rossio posts his comments at his writing site Wordplayer’s message board, which I used to visit pretty regularly when I was in school, and I would recommend for anyone interested in screenwriting. Rossio has a lot of really good stuff there, and all for free, to boot.
For the record, none of the recent Pirates 4 rumors have any truth, including the so-called record 50 million dollar payday for Depp.
Some pretty funny stuff, though. Sacha Cohen? Tim Burton? Studios are way too protective of their franchises for that sort of thing.
So there you go. No, Borat won’t be Captain Jack Sparrow’s long-lost brother. No, Tim Burton won’t be directing the fourth Pirates film. And no, Depp isn’t being paid a gazillion dollars for the fourth Pirates movie.
Maybe.
Below: “So, ah, Keira, have you heard anything about this gazillion dollar paycheck thing?…”
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jonny depp already has a brother in the pirates of the caribbean movies. you see him twice in the 3rd movie. he’s the pirate that looks after the pirates code book. he even looks like an older depp.
you know its his brother bcoz depp even asks him “hows mum?”
my mistake, its his dad
Yeah it was just a thing I saw online that he was going to have a brother but I dunno. I just looked online and it brought me to a youtbube video and the POC4 is called The fountain of Youth. I saw a trailer of it but it didn’t show anything in it saying johnny depp would have a brother. so i guess that will be a suprise if it happens.
I hope they do a number four. Fine, no Will and no Liz, I didn’t like them anyways. Talk about the kid, the map Jack stole, whatever. Talk about the stupid brother, but, Dear God, don’t let it be Russel “Bland”.
I hope they have blackbeard in one of these movies