OMG OMG OMG!!! i Just read somewhere that production Designers designed a couple of guitars for Keith Ricards to play....including one of a turtle shell.....then they said that it was amazing to watch Johnny and his "Dad" play them!
do u think this means that they'll play the guitars in the Movie!!!???? 😱 OMG that would be amazing!
ok well here is the article i read!
From MTV
April 30, 2007
'Pirates' Of Singapore? Details From Un-Caribbean 'At World's End' Set
Behind-the-scenes masterminds talk about sequel's Asian influence, shaking Keith Richards' hand.
BURBANK, California — When last we saw the Pirates of the Caribbean, things weren't looking too good. Captain Jack Sparrow had been swallowed whole by a giant sea monster, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann's romance was on the rocks, and the evil Captain Barbossa had once again risen from the dead.
But judging from a stunning visit to the set of the third movie, "At World's End," things are about to start looking much, much better (see "Keira Knightley Could Tell You About 'Pirates 3,' But She'd Have To Kill You"😉. "I think you'll notice right away that we're not in the Caribbean any longer," Rick Heinrichs, the production designer for all three movies, beamed last year from the set, which doubled for Singapore. "We're on the other side of the world."
"Welcome to Singapore!" chimed in visual-effects supervisor John Knoll, looking over the small fishing town of cobblestone roads, precarious bridges and wares-selling huts. "This is a set that we spent two-and-a-half months building."
The wicker-and-water set is the primary location for "World's End," which sails into theaters May 25. In the film, the pirates travel to Singapore in their quest to find the literal end of the world, save Captain Jack and reclaim the Black Pearl. First, however, they'll need to grapple with Captain Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), the Pirate Lord of Singapore.
"It was a lot of fun for us to research and come up with a new way of telling the story of pirates and what a pirate looks like in 1720s Singapore," Heinrichs said. "There's not much documentation about it. It's different shrubberies, Chinese and southeast Asian architecture, and so we came up with this Chinese/Malaysian mélange."
"Although we didn't have a direct reference from Singapore in the early part of the 18th century, we did have other stuff from the 19th century, the early 1800s, photographic-type research," Knoll added. "Singapore, anyway, is kind of at a crossroads in Southeast Asia, with many different cultural references. So we have Indonesian, Malaysian and Chinese — it's a melting pot."
But when most people think pirates, they imagine peg legs, parrots and pointy hats — not rainforests, roundhouse kicks and sticky rice. It goes without saying, then, that the new locale will result in a decidedly different pirate tale.
"This set is designed for an action scene right here, when all heck breaks loose," Knoll grinned like a proud papa, looking at the 3-foot-deep water and the narrow bridges hanging over it. "The Chinese pirates, our pirates, and the East India Trading Company troops all converge and fight, and people fall in the water and things get blown up."
Looking over at a small shanty, he added: "That's a fireworks hut right there, so I don't even need to tell you what happens to that."
The set was reinforced more than any of Knoll and Heinrichs' previous "Pirates" structures, in order to contain the quasi-kung-fu fighting that breaks out when all these enemies engage in their 17th-century Mexican standoff.
"We're not doing the Hong Kong high-wire stuff," Heinrichs cautioned. "There's no 'Crouching Tiger,' but we have a lot of Chinese influence in there ... that dictated how the sets were built. ... Our sets were built to withstand quite a bit of violence."
Once the sets were constructed, the stars came to play. On the afternoon we visited, director's chairs could be seen for all the major stars except Depp; Keira Knightley and Chow-Yun Fat shot scenes in a closed-off "bathhouse" just a few feet away. But, according to Heinrichs, even the on-set A-listers had stars in their eyes when a rock legend showed up to film his cameo.
"Everybody wanted to meet Keith Richards," he remembered. "But there was a policy thing. It would have been a big distraction. Still, everybody was trying to walk past his trailer, and I actually got to shake his hand — the guy is such an icon."
Heinrichs didn't get to speak with the Rolling Stones guitarist, but he said that's just as well — because he wouldn't know how to begin the conversation. "I wouldn't really know what to say to him," he shrugged. "When you actually meet a hero, it's a little difficult to just say, 'How's it going there, Keith?' "
The production designer was thrilled to create several "period" guitars for Richards to play (including one with a sea turtle's shell) and said that the crew was in awe while watching Johnny Depp and his "dad" play pirates.
"They're very talented, these pirates," Heinrichs grinned.
also this Bruekheimer article is interesting too....He says that the end of Pirates 3 has a spin off!
"Certainly, there is a moment at the end of the film there is a hope that something else might happen.
"There's a little string that goes off. There's something new." "- Jerry B.
CAN U BELIEVE THE MOVIE IS NOT DONE YET???
From The West
Nervous buildup to next Pirates movie
30th April 2007
In a small gold art deco building hidden in the maze of sound stages on the 20th Century Fox movie studio lot in Los Angeles, Jerry Bruckheimer is sitting quietly in the foyer.
He has plenty to think about.
The Hollywood super producer is under the gun.
In a few weeks the final chapter of his adventure trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, will open simultaneously in theatres around the globe, but the film is yet to be completed.
It's almost done.
Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski and the film's army of editors, sound mixers and special effects technicians are facing a week of sleepless nights before the final print is in the can.
The deadline is so tight he has not screened a rough cut for a test audience, a right of passage for most Hollywood films and a chance for a movie's producers, directors and studio executives to make late changes.
"Sure we're nervous," Bruckheimer, whose films, including Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor and Armageddon, have made more than $US14 billion ($A17 billion) at the global box office, said.
"I think it will open well, but who knows?
"No audience has seen this movie because we just don't have time.
"We showed it to a group of Gore's friends who loved it and thought it was better than the first two, but they're Gore's friends.
"So, who knows what that really means?"
Then again, Bruckheimer probably does not have to fine-tune this film.
If there is such a thing as a guaranteed Hollywood hit, the third Pirates film is it.
The Pirates franchise, which stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Australian Oscar winner, Geoffrey Rush, is one of the most profitable in Hollywood history.
Just like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, each chapter has made more money than the previous one.
The original, 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, earned $US654 million ($A792.5 million) world-wide and scored Depp a best actor Oscar nomination.
Last year's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest became the third highest grossing film of all-time, earning $US1.066 billion ($A1.3 billion), behind number one Titanic which earned $US1.845 billion ($A2.24 billion) and runner-up Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King which took in $US1.12 billion ($A1.36 billion).
The third Pirates is expected to eclipse $US1 billion ($A1.21 billion) and leapfrog Return of the King.
It cost $US225 million ($A272.6 million) to make so it is not a bad return if it does top the billion dollar (US) mark.
At the Fox lot, Bruckheimer has agreed to show a small group of journalists eight scenes of Pirates Three.
The Pirates films are owned by Disney, but for the final weeks of editing Bruckheimer and his team have leased the editing suites of rival studio Fox, owned by Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
It is a common occurrence as quality editing space is tight in LA.
When Bruckheimer realises his guests have arrived he gets out of his chair in the foyer, greets them with a warm handshake and leads the group through a glass security door in the art deco building, along a short corridor and into an office area.
The Pirates Three crew have made themselves at home at Fox.
The first thing you see when you enter the office is a large flag containing a picture of a pirate skull and cross bones sculling a bottle of booze.
The skull and cross bones are underlined by the words: "Time Flies When You're Having Rum".
There are photos and other pirate memorabilia scattered around the office.
Attached to the office are two state-of-the-art suites where Pirates Three editors Stephen Rivkin and Craig Wood are piecing the film together.
Bruckheimer invites his guests into Rivkin's suite, makes sure everyone has a chair and begins the preview session.
There is a large high definition flat screen TV on the far wall and below it are two computer screens.
One computer screen is filled with files containing scenes for the movie. With one click a scene appears on the big flat screen.
The other computer screen shows the movie footage.
To the left is another TV screen matching the footage on the large flat screen TV.
"A lot of the visual effects shots aren't finished so you'll see things that don't look right, but they'll soon be perfect," Bruckheimer cautions before asking Rivkin to show the first scene.
For an hour Bruckheimer introduces the eight scenes, which include elaborate battle scenes, humourous lines by Depp & Co and complex special effects that appeared to be perfect.
"I have a proposal for you!" Rush, who returns as the infamous pirate, Captain Barbossa, asks newcomer, Hong Kong action film star Yun-Fat Chow, who plays a Singapore-based pirate lord, in one scene.
It would spoil the plot to reveal the details of Capt Barbossa's proposal.
Pirates Three continues the love triangle between Depp's Capt Jack Sparrow, Knightley's Elizabeth Swann and Bloom's Will Turner.
"If you make your choices alone how can I trust you?" Turner pleads with Swann at one point.
"You can't," a defiant Swann replies.
The second Pirates' movie introduced the Kraken, a giant octopus, and in the new film audiences meet the Calypso.
Bruckheimer declined to show the last 40 minutes of the movie.
"It's a little teaser," he explained at the end of the sneak peek session.
"But, the last 40 minutes are some of the most exciting filmmaking I've ever seen.
"It's just spectacular what Gore has achieved."
Critics and audiences had complained the second Pirates film ended abruptly, but Bruckheimer said the storylines of the first two will be resolved in the third.
"Everything is tied up," he said.
Bruckheimer confirmed Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who was the inspiration for Depp's mumbling and stumbling performance as Capt Sparrow, would make a cameo appearance.
"He has a cameo, but it's a very important cameo," Bruckheimer said.
"We had to find three or four days when Keith wasn't touring.
"At the time we were filming this he was touring around Europe, so we found a little break in September, he had some time and we grabbed him and got him to the set."
Richards shot the cameo a few months after he fell out of a coconut tree while holidaying in Fiji, but Bruckheimer said the veteran rocker lapped up his time on the LA set with Depp.
"He loved it," Bruckheimer said.
"He had a ball. He didn't leave the set even when he wasn't shooting."
There are more than 2,000 special effects shots in Pirates Three.
Bruckheimer said technology had advanced so quickly fans will notice improvements in the special effects between the new film and Pirates Two.
Davy Jones, the mythical pirate whose face is part human and part squid, will once again make audiences squirm.
"Davy Jones is even better in this one," Bruckheimer said.
"The images are better.
"The technology makes it more real."
The technical wizards were pushed to create one of the film's more dramatic scenes, which involved a sea battle within a giant whirlpool.
"You would never have been able to do that sequence prior because water is the hardest to recreate digitally," Bruckheimer said.
To shoot the scene Bruckheimer and his crew hired one of the largest airplane hangars in the world, a building on the outskirts of Los Angeles that once housed Howard Hughes' giant sea plane, the Spruce Goose.
The one scene took eight weeks to film.
"We built three ships in that hangar and did a lot of that sequence there," Bruckheimer said.
There are rumours of a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie and while each chapter makes a $US1 billion ($A1.21 billion) at the box office and hundreds of millions more in DVD sales, it is probably more than speculation.
Bruckheimer, however, is adamant the series ends with the third film.
"This is the end," he said.
"This is the end of the trilogy."
Then again, that does not mean there could be a Pirates of the Caribbean spin-off, right?
"Whether there will be another movie depends on whether we can create something new and different, but this is the end," he adds.
"Everything is tied up at the end of this movie."
Bruckheimer is the master of the spin-off.
Along with his $US14 billion ($A16.96 billion) in movie revenue, he dominates TV, with the CSI TV franchise as well as top-rating TV series Without a Trace, Cold Case and Amazing Race.
He successfully spun off CSI: Crime Scene Investigation into CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.
As adamant as Bruckheimer is about no loose ends left for audiences at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At Word's End, he admits the script does leave the possibility of a spin-off.
Depp and Bloom have said they will hang up their swords after Pirates Three, but some other characters may live on.
"This is the end, but whether one of the characters or a couple of the characters continue on, it's a possibility," Bruckheimer concedes.
"Certainly, there is a moment at the end of the film there is a hope that something else might happen.
"There's a little string that goes off. There's something new."
Australian audiences can look for that "string" when Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End opens in Australia May 24.
How intriguing- the whole article. I wonder what exactly happens that makes us ready for another one if all the storylines are tied up. It has to be big. Here's hoping for my Gone With the Wind ending!
What's also interesting is that I've always heard Johnny Depp was willing to play Jack forever yet this article says he's ready for this third one to be the last one. While I'm in firm agreement this should be the last one, it's a change from what we've been hearing.
Anyone know anything about the lines from the movie they quote here?
I'm so excited to see it!
"If you make your choices alone how can I trust you?" Turner pleads with Swann at one point.
"You can't," a defiant Swann replies.
-this is when Will finds Liz crying in a room after Jack reveals that she killed him, and they end up having a little argument and he confronts her about not telling him.
and this is the pic to go with it:
I really don't like the idea of him having to once again chase down the Pearl if that's how it ends. Give him a break! By the end of the trilogy, there does need to be a sense of ending, that if any adventures are going to begin, they'll be new. Chasing after his ship again isn't really fitting or deserving.
They won't give that kind of ending with Jack. I have an idea, but I won't spoil for now 😄.
But a conclusion is not having Jack chasing after a ship. It brings him down as a character. It's a FULL CIRCLE.
You guys forget that Jack DIDN'T started as a pirate....FULL CIRCLE FULL CIRCLE.
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