Couple that with the fact that Curse of the Black Pearl’s script went through the hands of several different writers before it eventually got made, and it appears that seemingly everyone wanted to get his or her name attached to the final cut of the film.
One lawsuit is a lot to deal with; now imagine dealing with six all at once.
Terry Rossio’s recent comments in a Wordplay Column about his work on Pirates of the Caribbean gets to the heart of writing an adaptation of a potential Hollywood blockbuster.
Even the smallest of these suits turned into enormous headaches for Rossio, as he was forced to turn over subpoenaed documents and emails — which took time away from his work on the movie.