Pirates of the caribbean: at world's end - Disney

to drop. But there’s also great sadness that we’re leaving our ‘Pirates’ home. Hopefully, we’ll be able to
reunite many times over the years, and our paths will cross many times. So it was a time for reflection,
proud of what we did, sad, happy, relieved and looking forward to reunions.
“Jerry Bruckheimer came up to me at one point and said, ‘It’s pretty big, isn’t it?’ And I said, ‘Yeah,
it’s all downhill from here.’ And he said to me, with a grin on his face, ‘That’s what they told me when I
did ‘Beverly Hills Cop.’”
In the end, as Bruckheimer explains, it all comes down to the fundamentals of what brings people into
a movie theater, which has changed little despite the enormous leaps in technology from the time
audiences stared wide-eyed at the Melies Brothers’ special effects spectacles at the turn of the 20th
century, howled uproariously at the comic exploits of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, or sat at the
edge of their seats at fantastic feats of derring-do by Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
“Our biggest challenge for AT WORLD’S END is to entertain the audience,” says the producer, “and
just make sure that they have a great time. The film is even more intricate than ‘The Curse of the Black
Pearl’ and ‘Dead Man’s Chest.’ It has enormous battles, character turns, romance and humor. It’s what we
all make movies for, and all of the elements of why people have gone to the movies for the past hundred
years or so. We want to suck the audience into our magical world on that screen, take them to places
they’ve never been before with characters they fall in love with…and in the end, feel a little better than
when they walked into the theatre.”
ABOUT THE CAST
JOHNNY DEPP reprises his Academy Award ® and two-time Golden
Globe ® -nominated role of Captain Jack Sparrow in PIRATES OF THE
CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END. Depp received Academy Award ® ,
Golden Globe ® , British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
nominations and a Screen Actors Guild Award ® for his portrayal of
Captain Jack in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,”
and another Golden Globe ® nomination for “Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest.”
Depp has earned both critical and popular acclaim for his unique work
in a variety of memorable feature films. Most recently, he collaborated
with director Tim Burton for the fourth and fifth times on “Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory,” for which Depp received a Golden Globe ®
nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, and “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride,” which received a
2005 Academy Award ® nomination for Best Animated Film. Based on the beloved Roald Dahl classic,
Depp portrayed eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which opened
to impressive critical and box-office success internationally. For “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride,” Depp
loaned his voice to the lead character of Victor Van Dort in the wildly imaginative film, which was one of
last year’s most celebrated releases. In a striking contrast, Depp also recently starred opposite John
Malkovich and Samantha Morton in Laurence Dunmore’s “The Libertine” as 17th-century womanizing
poet John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester. Depp recently completed filming the title role in “Sweeney
Todd,” again directed by Tim Burton from Stephen Sondheim’s famed musical about the exploits of “the
demon barber of Fleet Street.”
Depp received an Academy Award ® nomination, Golden Globe ® nomination, Screen Actors Guild
Award ® nomination and BAFTA nomination for his role as J.M. Barrie in Mark Forster’s “Finding
Neverland,” in which he starred opposite Kate Winslet and Freddie Highmore.
Depp’s other screen credits include David Koepp’s “Secret Window,” Robert Rodriguez’s “Once Upon
A Time in Mexico,” Albert and Allen Hughes’ “From Hell,” Ted Demme’s “Blow,” Lasse Hallstrom’s
romantic comedy “Chocolat,” Julian Schnabel’s “Before Night Falls,” Sally Potter’s “The Man Who
Cried,” Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow,” Roman Polanski’s “The Ninth Gate” and Terry Gilliam’s “Fear and
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ABOUT THE CAST