The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is one of the most successful live-action properties that Disney has ever produced. The first movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl was something of a surprise hit, considering it was both a pirate movie and a film based on a theme park attention based on a theme park attraction . Neither either of those concepts were sure bets The first film\"s success led to the fast tracking of a pair of sequels, and according to director Gore Verbinski, making those movies was something akin to being on an out of control theme park attraction in itself.
Gore Verbinski recently sat down with Collider and spoke at length about the original trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean films that he directed. Making the first movie was apparently quite fun since nobody was sure it was going to work, which Verbinski took as a challenge. The two sequels to The Curse of the Black Pearl were filmed together, which made it a very different experience. The movies were made with an eye toward release dates, forcing the movie to push on quickly, which was then complicated by outside forces. As Verbinski explained,
: We got hit by a hurricane, half the set got wiped out. Our tank didn\"t work. We had to pull stuff back to LA. It was pure survival mode by the time we got to the third one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man\"s Chest and At World\"s End were filmed back to back with release dates a year apart. Gore Verbinski explains that there wasn\"t even a single page of a script for the third movie when filming on the second part began. Regardless, the plan was to film both movies straight through with no breaks. Unfortunately, some breaks were forced to occur by circumstance.
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