Everything about this movie should NOT have worked!
In its initial incarnation, it was a pirate movie with no supernatural element, with the idea to have Matthew McConaughey cast as Jack Sparrow, or failing him, Christopher Walken , with the film planned to go direct-to-video.With a number of different scripts provided by the writers of Collateral, 30 Days of Night, Aladdin, Shrek and The Mask Of Zorro, eventually the supernatural element was added in, and Gore Verbinski signed as director, hot from the success of his family movie Mouse Hunt.
The rest of the cast also started to fill out, including Geoffrey Rush as the villainous Captain Barbossa , Orlando Bloom as Will Turner , and Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann . Three months after the disastrous launch of The Country Bears, production began on the movie on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in October 2002. Aside from one huge set fire that caused over $500,000 worth of damage but zero injuries, things went off without a hitch... obviously except for Disney's absolute confusion at Johnny Depp's performance decisions. Which, in hindsight, we all know worked out great for everyone.
It was even nominated for five Oscars, including a Best Actor nomination for Depp, and resulted in four Pirates of the Caribbean sequels with a combined box office of over $4.5 billion worldwide. So, despite everything, the risk really paid off for Disney. And in an age where Disney rarely make a big budget production for anything that isn't Marvel or Star Wars, that kind of risk would be massively welcomed by audiences. All they ask is that the movie itself be actually, y'know,Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is available to watch on Disney+ right now, along with all four of the sequels in the series.
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