“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” In 2011
Disney has finally announced the fourth installment of “Pirates Of The Caribbean.” Film number-four will be titled “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and it will be released in the summer of 2011.
The company made the announcement with Johnny Depp at the D23 Expo. Johnny Depp, who plays Captain Jack Sparrow, sailed onstage in a pirate ship. He staggered around the stage before hugging Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook, who told the audience of 5,000 fans about the next instalment.
Guys over at Cinematical have some interesting information. Actually, there is a novel called “On Stranger Tides” about pirates written by Tim Powers.
“On Stranger Tides” is a fantasy book that won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1988 and was also nominated for The World Fantasy award.
In the book, originally published in 1988, the main character is also named Jack (Shandy) who tries to find the Fountain of Youth which was rumored title of the fourth installment.
“On Stranger Tides” Plot summary from Amazon:
“World Fantasy Award–winner Powers (Three Days to Never) demonstrates a precise control of complex narratives in this reprint of his rollicking and enchanting 1987 novel. Puppeteer John Chandagnac, bound for Jamaica to recover stolen money from his uncle, becomes Jack Shandy after pirates attack his ship and force him to join their crew. Shandy’s struggle to accept his new life grounds the story for readers, even as Blackbeard and vodun magicians whisk everyone away to dreamlike lands where the Fountain of Youth itself awaits.
The chaotic sea battles sing, though at times key events happen so quickly that they get lost in the shuffle as Jack tries to comprehend where he’s going and what’s at stake. This dark fantasy tale will appeal not just to pirate fans but also to anyone who appreciates Powers’s talent for blending the most unlikely elements into a brilliantly cohesive whole.” – From Publishers Weekly
“Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of…Keeps you reading for the joy of it.” – The Washington Post
” … Tim Powers is the apostle of gonzo history, and On Stranger Tides is as good as story-telling ever gets. He has found a way to bring together powerful Indian magic, black vodun, a British scientist driven mad with grief over his wife’s death, and Blackbeard himself, determined to live forever. Opposing them all is John Chandagnac, a one-time puppeteer who has come to the Caribbean to confront the uncle who cheated John’s father out of his rightful inheritance. Captured by pirates, John finds himself rechristened Jack Shandy; he also finds that his old skill as a puppeteer can save his life. – From the Back Cover
” … Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale. The story promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all. You’ll love the characters, you’ll stay awake all night reading it, and when you finally do sleep, you’ll find this story playing through your dreams.” – Orson Scott Card, from Hatrack.com
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O MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!, every time there is a new update about pirates of the caribean 4, that is now called pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides, it just gets even better and better every single time!. I am now looking forwards to seeing pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides more then ever!. I hope this movie turns out to be how i can already picture it could be like when its released in the summer of 2011.
I have enjoyed all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies so far I am sure the next one will be just as good!
I have to say I kinda of saw this one coming, but do we really need another Pirates movie?? I liked the original, but wasn’t too crazy about the 2nd one (seemed more cartoony) – at least the first one was a bit darker. The third was a long movie, but it did wrap up everything. Just not so sure that they really need to make another one.
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Just to let you know!, they are making a pirates 4, 5 and 6, not just a pirates 4. They are planning a second trilogy that will be a continuation of the first pirates of the caribbean trilogy. So no, its not over, and i’m glad its not, so they need to make more pirates of the caribbean movies, until johnny depp looks too old to play as captain jack sparrow, or at least right before he start to look older then he currently is right now!. I’m sure no one wants to see a old and frail jack sparrow played johnny depp, that far into the future!, right?, because that would just be weird!.
wooopiiiieeeeee,
finallly v got an news abt dah relese ovv 4th instalment ov POTC…..m dien 2 watch it…
nd i think dah movie will cast some chacrachters 4m diz above story…nd m damn exited 2 watc bakk CAPT-jack nd CAPT-barbossa…
Yes MRdj, i could’t agree with you more!.
Tim Powers is a great writer–I Enjoy ALL his books–after this movie comes out there will be many others will want to read his books.
Imdb.com’s webpage for pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides has a estmated theatrical release date for pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides which is “July 2011″.
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SOO HAPPY FOR THIS MOVIE!!! I HAVE BEEN HOPING FOR THEM TO MAKE A 4 AND THEY ARE!!! YAY!!!!!!!! I LOVED THE 1,2,3 AND KNOW THE 4 IS PROBABLY GUNNA BE EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
Yes, dude, i couldn’t agree with you more there!. You absolutely right about that!. I was thinking the same thing you are there!.
Sounds as it should be, although I be thinkin’ that Russel Brand would surely be a welcome addition to the cast! Has anyone heard anything further about him recently?
I can’t wait to see If they include Blackbeard in the story as written and if so, who they will cast in that role!
I have always loved the pirate movies! I have watched them so many times, that I scratched the disks. We have had to buy replacements
I can also quote all the movies as I watch them! But I cant believe that Keira Knightly isnt doing it and Orlando Bloom (oo la la) might not do it either! I have been trying to find out what the 4th movie will be! And now I have! Now we have to wait 2 years for it to come out! Well, more Pirate adventures to come!
So they might include blackbeard in the story of the fourth movie, with johnny depp as captain jack sparrow???.
As much as I have enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean, I really really hope that this upcoming movie has no relation to Tim Powers’ book. It would make an atrocity out of both Tim Powers’ novel and the Pirates of the Caribbean series — Rape death and torture have little place in a Disney movie
Who ever said that rape, death and torture has anything at all to do with the upcoming pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides movie?. For you know, they might rule those parts of it out of the fourth pirates of the caribbean movie, because for god sakes!, its a disney movie, its not a horror movie, or anything in that catagory. Disney would never put that into any of their movie what so ever!. They may have pushed it just alittle bit with the pirates of the caribbean movie just alittle bit, because jerry bruckheimer gets away with it everytime, but tha definately does not mean they’ll go any further in putting such things like you mentioned in the upcoming pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides movie!.
I’VE JUST READ THAT JOHNNY DEPP WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE FIFTH AND SIXTH MOVIE AND WHAT’S MORE AT THOSE TWO MOVIES THE CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW CARACTER IS GONNA CHANGE AT ALL.WELL IF THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR MINDS BETTER TAKE ANOTHER THOUGHT BECAUSE THAT IS A PIECE OF SHIT!
FIRSTLY, CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW IS JOHNNY DEPP AND JOHNNY DEPP IS CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW.SPARROW IS JOHNNY DEPP CREATION AND YOU CAN’T JUST REPLACE HIM.
SECONDLY AND MOST IMPORTANT.WE ALL KNOW WHY FOX WHANT CAPTAIN JACK COMES AGAIN.BECAUSE HE IS THE TREASURE OF THEIR CASH-OFFICE.BUT FOR ME AND THE ATHERE FANS IS TOTALY DIFERENT.THERE IS NO WORDS THAT CAN EXPLAIN THAT FEELING BUT I’LL TRY.I’VE ALREADY SEEN THE FIRST TRILOGY MORE THAN SEVEN TIMES AND EACH TIME IS AS GREAT AS THE PREVIOUS.THAT CARACTER MAKES ME HAVE FUN AND ALSO MAKES ME FEEL FREEDOM AS PACTAIN JACK SAYS .TO ME CAPTAIN JACK IS FREEDOM.
IF JOHNNY DEPP DOESN’T WANT TO PLAY CAPTAIN SPARROW ROLE IN THE FIFTH AND SIXTH MOVIE RESPECT THAT AND BETTER THE NEW TRILOGY NEVER COMES OUT.BUT CHESUR’S CHRIST DON’T REPLACE HIM.
He is not going to be replaced if walt disney pictures begins to realized how pissed out the fans are begining to get hearing about all that!. He wont be replaced in the fifth and sixth movies, because jerry bruckheimer and walt disney pictures are going to do everything it takes to keep him in those movies, or pirates of the caribbean 5 and pirates of the caribbean 6 are in serious danger of actually not even happening at all !, because disney and bruckheimer wll realize that NO ONE will go and see any pirates of the caribbean 5 and pirates of the caribbean 6 with out johnny depp being in it!!!!!!!!!.
sorry i think i made a mistake.i might have written the piraes of the caribbean company wrong name.sorry!
sorry i’ve written fox instead of disney.sorry!
ARE YOU CRAZY! Half the fun of the Pirats movies is that there are so many things going on at once. Each character has their own story and even enemies come together. We can’t just have a Pirates movie about one character! Why change something that people already love!
Jenny, yes, i couldn’t agree with you more there, this what you said!. I hope though that when you typed that, you were not including william and elizabeth, because their story already ended in pirates of the caribbean: at worlds end. I wonder though if in pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides if captain jack sparrow will have his own love intrest!, do you think he will?, or no?.
OMG!!! I’m so happy now!! yaaay
DAMN RIGHT, IF JOHNNY DEPP IS REPLACED, I WILL NOT GO SEE THAT MOVIE AND I WILL CURSE DISNEY WITH ALL HELL.
I HATE IT WHEN A BIG CORPORATION THINK THEY CAN JUST DO WHATEVER THE HELL THEY WANT. AND IF JOHNNY DEPP GIVES IN EVEN AN INCH TO DISNEY’S BULLSHIT THEN HE WON’T BE THE SYMBOL OF FREEDOM, BUT WE ALL KNOW HE WON’T SELL OUT ON FREEDOM, THAT’S WHY WE ALL LOVE JACK SPARROW AND HE WON’T COMPROMISE AND WE AS FANS WILL NOT EITHER
Neo, i absolutely hope you are right!, because i totally want for pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides to happen with johnny depp in it regardless too!. So does everyone else, so i think that all of us here and everywhere else who wants for johnny depp to return in the fourth movie, are now complaining about it all over the internet so, maybe that will tell the people who that are in charge of casting for the pirates movies will find out that all of us fans want to have johnny depp in pirates 4 as captain jack sparrow, and they better have him to be in it, or the fourth might suck entirely or might not even happen for that matter!. But lets just hope that he will be in it and the movie will happen, with them paying him to be in it, so that none of us fans will be disappointed!, and upset that it didn’t turn out the way we all wanted it too in the first place!!!!.
No Johnny Depp=No Pirates 4, 5, or 6! No how, No way! Fans will refuse to see Jack/Johnny replaced by anyone, I MEAN ANYONE! Kill him off and we will NOT come out to see the movie. Plain and simple, Johnny is Jack Sparrow and Jack Sparrow is the Pirate’s Franchise…..movies and all!
This is a bad idea! I mean that Captain Jack’s story is great but where is the rest of the cast.
kkapp11, i think the people over at disney will begin to realize soon that no one will go and bother to even see a pirates 5 and 6 if johnny depp is not there at captain jack sparrow, i mean that just a mojor duhhhhh! factor!, if you get my drift?!?!. Unfortunately the rest of the pirates crew will not be there, but i did find out as of recently that the character pintell and regetti WILL be returning and luckily so will jack sparrow played by johnny depp, and captain barbossa who that is played by geoffrey rush!. I found out that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, will be coming to theaters on July 8th, 2011 Friday, imdb.com says it’s coming out in july 2011, and the only day they would release it to theaters in the month and year is on the 8th, so July 8th, 2011 Friday will be it full-official theatrical release date!.
sorry, i ment to say there at the begining of my previous comment that its a “major” duhhhh factor that no one will bother to go and see a pirates 5 and 6 with out johnny depp being those movies as captain jack sparrow!.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE but Zac Efron in it. I heard him on TV once saying he would love to be in a POC movie….we need a cutie if Orlando isn’t coming back!
DONT put zac efron in it hu wants a little weeed when u can have a MANLY characters such as…. ROBERT PATTINSON! yey!
pleeeeeeeeeeeeez robert pattinson
YES!! Pirates!!!
I don’t think we really need any of those extra actors to be put in any future pirates of the caribbean movies, all we will really need is johnny depp as captain jack sparrow, geoffrey rush as captain barbossa and someone to play blackbeard the pirate in pirates of th caribbean: on stranger tides!, how about someone to play blackbeard such as gerard butler from the movie 300???. I think that could be something that definately be able to work!!!. And the reason i mentioned Blackbeard the pirate, is because “i think” that character or pirate, is in the novel “on stranger tides, which is that story written by tim powers!!!.
Disney has taken a perfectly beautiful series and killed it. What they’re doing is destroying something magical simply because it will make them a profit. Yeah, the moviegoers and Johhny Depp fan girls are going to flock to the movie theaters and in all honesty Disney will probably keep making the Pirates franchise money that they want. But the real Pirates of the Caribbean fanatics (”We wants the redhead!”, anyone?) will most definitely be crying themselves to sleep at night knowing this monstrosity is occurring for the sake of some extra cash.
They have only gone to far with the second movie and third movie, that all!, nt anything from before or with whats yet to come!, so theres no reason to make it sound like the future of the franchise is in trouble because no it’s not at all !!!.