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Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)

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Pirates of the Caribbean
2007 DVD box set
Directed by	Gore Verbinski (1-3) Rob Marshall (4)
Produced by	Jerry Bruckheimer
Written by	Terry Rossio Ted Elliott Stuart Beattie (1) Jay Wolpert (1)
Starring	Johnny Depp Geoffrey Rush Orlando Bloom (1-3) Keira Knightley (1-3) Kevin McNally Penélope Cruz (4) Ian McShane (4)
Music by	Hans Zimmer (2-4) Klaus Badelt (1) Rodrigo y Gabriela (4)
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	2003, 2006, 2007, 2011
Running time	462 minutes (1-3)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	Total (3 films): $865,000,000
Gross revenue	Total (3 films): $2,681,440,232

Pirates of the Caribbean is a series of fantasy-adventure films directed by Gore Verbinski (1-3) and Rob Marshall (4), written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. They are based on a Walt Disney theme park ride of the same name, and follows the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and how characters including Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally), along with Angelica (Penélope Cruz) and Blackbeard (Ian McShane) are involved.
The films started with their first release on the big screen in 2003 with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. After the success of the first film, Walt Disney Pictures revealed that a trilogy was in the works. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was released three years later in 2006. The sequel proved successful, breaking records worldwide the day of its premiere. In the end, it earned $1,066,179,725 at the worldwide box office, becoming the fourth and second-fastest film to reach this amount. The third film in the series, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, was released in 2007. So far, the film franchise has grossed $2.68 billion worldwide. In September 2008, Depp signed on for a fourth film in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, set to be released on May 20, 2011 in conventional 2D, IMAX, Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3D. Filming began on June 14, 2010 in Hawaii. It has been confirmed that two more installments to the franchise are included in Disney's future plans.^[1]
The series may have been influenced by the Monkey Island series. Coincidentally, one of the writers, Ted Elliott, was allegedly a script writer of a Steven Spielberg-produced MI animated film adaptation.^[2]