Today, everything is likely to become a film. It is enough to be a brand already known by the public so that majors They decide to open the portfolio before betting on something original that may be much better, but, of course, will anyone pay the entrance to see it? That must have been the conversation that Disney’s mandamases held at the time to Take forward the first movie of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and, in this case, The play came out more than good.
Disneyland pirates
As our partner Fatty Martin explains in the new video of the section is not like the others, although sometimes we forget, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ was born from Disneyland’s homonymous attraction, created in 1950 by his own Walt Disneyalthough it was not until 1967 that it opened its doors in the theme park.
More than 30 years laterto the managers of the mouse factory they occurred to them Use the name of the attraction to give rise to a film adaptation (As with that same 2003 with ‘The Enchanted Mansion’ and then it would happen with ‘Tomorrowland’ or ‘Jungle Cruise’).
The project of ‘The curse of the black pearl’ was really ambitious and wanted to have a technical and artistic team at the height: They offered the address to Steven Spielberg before falling into Gore Verbinskia less known name but that he had already shown that he handled the two predominant genres of this proposal well, comedy (in ‘A hard little mouse of cracking’) and terror (in the American adaptation of ‘The Ring’).
-Other names that soundedin this case for the leading role, they were Hugh Jackman, Matthew McConaughey, Jim Carrey, Robert de Niro o Christopher Walkenbut finally Jack Sparrow ended up awarded to Johnny Depp. While in the beginning Disney did not fully receive the actor’s contributions to the character (from his inspiration in Keith Richards of the Rolling Stone to his peculiar way of walking), in the end they decided to leave him wide manga and gave in the Diana with probably the most remembered of this story.
In these and many other curiosities, this chapter of It’s not like otherson which it is “One of the best adventure films of what we have of the century, and the beginning of a memorable franchise” that, in addition, he gave rise to one of the most profitable sagas in Disney’s history.
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