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George Lucas in 1978 Raiders story conference discussing the character that became Indiana Jones “The main thing is for him to be a super hero in the best sense of the word, which is John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery tradition of a man who we can look up to and say, ‘Now there’s somebody who really knows his job…'” Related post: Movie Cloning (Pirates) Ted Elliott talks about the movie The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) as an inspiration. The Dialogue Interview: Learning from the Masters interview with Mike De Luca Screenwriter Stuart Beattie (Story credit on Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl, and character credit on the other Pirate films) The draft that got it going and got a draft to Bruckheimer and Johnny, and then Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio came on.” So I was working on that and they were like, ‘We not happy with this draft would you like a go of it?’ And I was like, ‘Well, I’ve been asking for 10 fucking years, yes please!’ So I went in-pitched and got the job. And then years later I sold Collateral-this was in the period before it got made-and I submitted it again to Disney and said, ‘Come on, you gotta do this.” And they said, “no, no, no-we’re actually working on our own now.” And so they had hired an in-house writer and he was doing a draft, but they wanted me to work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And we sent that around town-got a lot of meetings, a lot of people interested, but it never ended up getting bought. The tongue in cheek Raiders of the Lost Ark version of pirates. But it had all the scenes from the rides. And I end up writing this thing called Quest of the Caribbean, because I couldn’t use the actual Pirates of the Caribbean. I was like, ‘let’s do that–what’s a movie that hasn’t been done in a while?’ And we were thinking and thinking and suddenly we both said, ‘pirates.’ That hadn’t been done since Errol Flynn. “Basically I was at Oregon State and I was hanging out with a friend and we were like, ‘Let’s write a movie.’ He’d never written a screenplay, but he liked that I was writing.

And as the word billion resonates in your head, you may be surprised to learn that the seeds of that franchise came from college students in Corvallis, Oregon. To date, the Pirates franchise of four films has a box office gross of just over $3.7 billion. Though I was a lover of the Walt Disney World ride Pirates of the Caribbean since my childhood, when I originally heard they were making a movie based on the ride my first thought was, “Well, that’s not going to be any good.” Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl(2003) ended up being nominated for five Oscars, earned over $650 million worldwide, and made the IMDB Top 250 listed tied with The Graduate, The Hustler, A Fistful of Dollars, Rope and Jurassic Park.Įmpire Magazine’s list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters named pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) as #8-just behind The Dude (Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). “No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?” “I think 10 bucks to escape to a different world is worth the 10 bucks.

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