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	Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, Keira Knightley Directed by: Gore Verbinski Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer Release Date: July 9th, 2003 (wide). MPAA Rating: PG-13 for action/adventure violence. Box Office: $305,413,918 (US total) Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures. Read Production Notes Check Out Pirates of the Caribbean Pictures For the roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), the crystalline waters of the Caribbean, like the high seas the world over, present a vast playground where adventure and mystery abound. But Jack’s idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the Governor’s (Jonathan Pryce) beautiful daughter, Elizabeth Swann (Keire Knightley). Elizabeth’s childhood friend, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), joins forces with Jack to commandeer the fastest ship in the British fleet, the H.M.S. Interceptor, in a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl. The duo and their ragtag crew are pursued by Elizabeth’s betrothed, the debonair, ambitious Commodore Norrington (Jack Davenport), aboard the H.M.S. Dauntless. Unbeknownst to Will, a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his crew to live forever as the undead, the moonlight eerily transforming them into living skeletons. The curse they carry can be broken only if the plundered treasure is restored in total and a blood debt repaid. Against all odds, the Interceptor and Dauntless race toward a thrilling confrontation with Barbossa’s pirates on the mysterious Isla de Muerta. At stake is Jack Sparrow’s revenge, the Black Pearl, a fortune in forbidden treasure, the lifting of the pirates’ curse that has doomed Barbossa and his crew to live forever as skeletons, the fate of the British navy, and the lives of our valiant heroes as they clash their swords in fierce combat against the dreaded Pirates of the Caribbean. From producer Jerry Bruckheimer comes the thrilling live-action adventure, Walt Disney Pictures’ “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” directed by Gore Verbinski. Screenplay by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio. Screen Story by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert. Executive Producers are Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, Bruce Hendricks and Paul Deason. The film stars Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Kevin R. McNally, Zoe Saldana and Jonathan Pryce. Buena Vista Pictures distributes. About the Production The thrilling tale of a daring rescue mission aimed at reversing an ancient curse, “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” is an irreverent wink at the famous Disney theme park attraction. When the idea was first presented to the production executives at Disney Studios, they could think of only one producer able to handle the scope and intricacies of such an undertaking. Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Dick Cook, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios, and Nina Jacobson, President of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, initially approached Jerry Bruckheimer to orchestrate this extravaganza, and Jerry was only too anxious to get underway. He has always wanted to make a motion picture about pirates. “I loved watching pirate pictures as a kid,” says Bruckheimer. “‘Treasure Island,’ ‘Captain Blood’ and ‘The Black Pirate’ were some of my favorites. Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks were formidable, and although their movies are still exciting and very watchable today, I thought we could add some extra pizzazz to a popular theme. “I think we take the swashbuckler genre to a new level,” he adds. “This has all the thrills and romance that you would expect from a big adventure.” Bruckheimer—who knows better than anyone what it takes to bring ‘big adventure’ to the big screen—began assembling his team. “We brought in Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, two wonderful writers who created a hit with ‘Shrek,’” he continues. “They brought in the element of the supernatural, which gave the story an edge that interested me. Anything I’m interested in seeing, I’m interested in making.” A trademark of Jerry Bruckheimer Films productions, writers are involved in every step of the production process. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were on set at all times during production. “The experience Terry and I had is what every single writer dreams of,” Ted Elliott says. “For a writer, being on set every day is unheard of. From beginning to end, it was terrific. To be able to talk to the director, the producer, the actors and even someone like the makeup artist, to ask questions and find out why things are done a certain way, was such a wonderful education. It was gratifying to realize the imagination and creativity each crew member put into the movie. From set design to costumes and makeup, seeing the production unfold on set was better than anything we made up and put on paper.” His partner agrees. “Jerry gave Gore such freedom, and Gore was confident enough with his ideas that he had no problem being collaborative,” says Terry Rossio. “We just knew the approach we wanted to take; we knew we wanted these characters and these specific moments in the story. We wanted it to be a very classic, Jane Austen-style, bodice-ripping romance. “This project was charmed from the beginning,” says Mike Stenson. “Ted and Terry are the absolute masters of this type of storytelling, and it turned out they had always wanted to do the feature version of ‘Pirates.’ They even sang the theme song the first time we met.” Elliott and Rossio will tell you that timing is everything. They pitched an idea for a pirate movie almost ten years earlier after completing work on “Aladdin,” but there was no interest from any studio. Undeterred, the writing team refused to give up the dream, keeping their concept on a back burner, convinced that the combination of romance, adventure and mystery would one day become popular again. Actor Johnny Depp was unhesitatingly confident that the writing duo could handle the job and make a childhood dream come true. “Isn’t it every boy’s dream to be a pirate and get away with basically anything?” Depp asks rhetorically. “Who wouldn want to play a pirate?” It wasn’t purely boyish exuberance that factored into Depp’s decision to accept the role of Captain Jack Sparrow; he was wholeheartedly confident in the quality of the project when he learned of Elliott and Rossio’s participation. “The second I heard that Ted and Terry were writing the script, I knew we were in good shape,” Depp says. “With Jerry’s background and Gore’s intense focus, I knew the film had strong shoulders to stand on. When I read Ted and Terry’s screenplay, I was pleasantly surprised; they’d exceeded my expectations. They brought a great amount of humor to the story and created building blocks for the actors to elaborate, to really stretch the character.” Pirates of the Caribbean Special