Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
At the end of the world, the adventure begins.
Country
Budget
$300 000 000
Revenue
$960 996 492
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Jerry Bruckheimer, Eric McLeod, Chad Oman, Peter Kohn, Pat Sandston, Jack Kney, Bruce Hendricks, Mike Stenson, Eric McLeod, Chad Oman
Operator
Composer
Artist
Rick Heinrichs
Audition
Denise Chamian, Priscilla John
Editing
Short description
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End continues the story begun in the previous two films. Jack Sparrow is trapped in Davy Jones's locker, and his friends Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with Captain Barbossa, once Jack's enemy, to bring him back. Their journey takes them to Singapore and beyond the edges of the known world. Meanwhile, Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company has gained control of Davy Jones and his ship, the Flying Dutchman, and uses them to hunt down pirates across the seas. To resist him, the pirate lords must be gathered for a final stand.
Gore Verbinski directed the film, his seventh feature and the third entry in the series he directed, following The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Dead Man's Chest (2006). Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio wrote the screenplay, and Jerry Bruckheimer produced. Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow, with Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa, Orlando Bloom as Will Turner, Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann, Jack Davenport as Norrington and Bill Nighy as Davy Jones. The large credited cast and crew reflect the scale of the production.
Made for about 300 million US dollars, the film took roughly 961 million dollars worldwide, a return well above its cost, though below the previous installment. Audiences received it favorably, with ratings of 7.2 on IMDb from around 740,000 votes and 7.3 on TMDB from over 15,000 votes. A film critics' rating of 5.7 from 224 reviews places it noticeably lower than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The third installment broke the tradition of previous films in the franchise, which began with opening credits. This time, a scene before the credits can be seen.
- The "Pirate Code" is a Talmud, 50 by 70 cm in size and weighing about 35 kg, containing a thousand parchment pages. In the frame, it is carried by pirate librarians who look like 90-year-old musicians from the band ZZ Top. A 4.5 kg copy of the "Code" had to be made for the Keeper of the "Code" (Keith Richards).
- The Pirate Council was held in real life, but it happened only once in history.
- The downpour in the shot is 100,000 liters of water per minute poured onto the ships.
- The world premiere of the official trailer in March 2007 was jeopardized due to the fault of domestic distributors. Two days before the trailer's premiere on the official Disney website, the Russian-language trailer leaked online.
- A green flash is a real optical phenomenon (though it happens extremely rarely). This phenomenon can be observed during sunset or sunrise, and it's best to do so from the sea.
- During the 'three-on-three' meeting on the sandbar, an adapted version of Ennio Morricone’s composition, used in Sergio Leone’s 1968 film "Once Upon a Time in the West" (C'era una volta il West), is heard. In the original film, this composition was played during the final shootout.
- When Johnny Depp finished filming and was about to leave, the film crew gifted him with a huge cake adorned with a multitude of marzipan ships and the inscription 'Dear Captain Jack, may your compass always lead you back to us. Thank you.' Depp was moved to tears.
- The moment the screen in the hall goes completely dark and the entire team sent to help Jack finds itself at the Edge of the World, voices and music used in the “pirate” attraction at Disneyland can be heard, thanks to which the franchise gained cinematic life.
- Davy Jones is a 3D model created using computer technology, but for 20 seconds in the third film, Jones appears as a human, played by Bill Nighy in costume.
- Filming of the second and third films in the pirate franchise took place simultaneously. This was done specifically to save time (to avoid repeatedly visiting exotic filming locations) and money. Nevertheless, in the fall of 2006, the film crew gathered again to complete filming (by that point, only a third of the material had been shot).
- The battle between the pirates and the East India Company's armada was filmed in a huge hangar built in 1983 for 100 bomber aircraft.
- Each installment of the franchise features a small bonus scene after the credits for the most patient viewers. The third film was no exception.
- In the first film of the trilogy, Captain Barbossa’s name was not mentioned (only in DVD commentary). This time, Barbossa’s name (Hector) is mentioned as the plot develops.
- The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards played an episodic role as Jack Sparrow’s father in the film. Johnny Depp repeatedly noted that while working on the image of Jack Sparrow, he copied Richards’ mannerisms, so inviting the rock legend to one of the franchise’s installments was only a matter of time. It wasn’t possible to do this while working on the sequel, but all formalities were finally settled by the time of the third film.
- In the film, Singapore is depicted as a major port city inhabited by Chinese people. However, in reality, before 1819, the site of the city was a small Malay fishing village, and after 1819 – a British colony.
- Filming took place in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Los Angeles, and Singapore, where the project’s creators filmed eastern landscapes for the movie.
- At the end of the film, a ship with a Russian coat of arms on the stern can be noticed at Tortuga’s pier. This is the Russian schooner "Saint Peter", which has been in the Caribbean Sea since 1994.
- Jack Sparrow appears on screen only at the 33rd minute of the film.
- Madam Ching, who refers to herself at the pirate court, was a real person – the Chinese pirate Zheng Shi.
- The overall budget for the third installment amounted to a substantial $300 million USD. In its year of release, it was the most expensive film in Hollywood history.
- In the third part of "Pirates," there's a scene where thousands of small crabs crash onto the deck of the "Black Pearl," sweeping everything in their path. The computer-generated crabs were created based on 175,000 blue plastic balls that were thrown onto the deck during filming. Filming had to be stopped for an hour because the actors and crew immediately grabbed the balls and started throwing them at each other.
- This film was the first to fully computer-generate a water surface.
- The Ennio Morricone composition during the 'three-on-three' meeting was adapted by none other than... Gore Verbinski. He is a professional guitar player.
- By setting the release date for the end of May 2007, the project's producers boxed themselves into a corner – practically all work on the third installment was carried out under severe time constraints. In particular, the script was not yet finished when filming began.
- For the shooting of the scene in which Jack’s monkey shivers from the cold, a real monkey was placed on a vibrating box.
- The Council of the Pirate Brotherhood did indeed exist, but it was called the Brotherhood of the Coast.
- As per tradition, copies for cinemas were encrypted and distributed to theater owners under the fake title “Rummy 3” (Rummy = rum).
- As of now, the film holds two North American box office records: the widest release (4362 theaters) and the best Memorial Day weekend start (the final weekend of May, $139.8 million for 4 days).
- 3500 candles were needed to illuminate the Bay of Shipwrecks.
- On the eve of filming in the salt desert, rain suddenly poured down, and the desert instantly turned into a sea.
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