Disney found itself with a very popular, very marketable film franchise. A movie based on a theme park ride seemed like the nadir of Hollywood’s creative bankruptcy – Disney had also released The Country Bears the year before – and a pirate movie hadn’t been seen in theatres since the notorious bomb Cutthroat Island.ĭepp, whose daring, indelible performance reportedly made a few Disney executives nervous, eventually got an Oscar nomination and wound up with what will likely be his signature movie role. Given how pervasive Johnny Depp’s image of Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean’s sexually ambiguous, possibly inebriated scalawag of the high seas, has become, it’s easy to overlook that absolutely nothing about it should have worked. Suggested By: The novel “On Stranger Tides” by Tim Powers Screenplay By: Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane and Geoffrey Rush
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