To this day, the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie remains arguably the greatest Pirates movie, and one of thegreatest action-adventure movies, ever made.
That was why when filmmaker Gore Verbinski first pitched the idea for Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl, few people in the industry believed in his vision.
“I think just pulling [the original trilogy] off, while trying to maintain that original madness, was enough.
Then you just start going, ‘Oh my God, I can’t sustain this, I need to blow it up.