INTERVIEW
 Keira Knightley: It really is like we never finished doing the first one.
Keira Knightley, along with the all-star line up from the first, hugely successful Pirates film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, have reunited with director Gore Verbinski to make Pirates 2, Dead Man's Chest, out this summer, and Pirates 3, which we'll see next year, virtually back to back.
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 Captain Jack Is Back... and So Are Will and ElizabethCaptain Jack is back…and so are Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, joined by a roistering shipload of characters both new and familiar, in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest”-the epic second installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean saga. Read More
Everything Relates Back to What Started Everything Off
In art, as in life, history has a strange way of turning full circle. The first on-screen image ever to appear in an all live-action Walt Disney Studio feature was none other than a closeup of the skull and crossbones Jolly Roger flag in the classic 1950 version of “Treasure Island.” Read More
Shipload of Characters Both New and Familiar
And Captain Jack Sparrow, it can be said with some degree of authority, is the only truly iconic screen character to have yet come out of this new millennium. Read More
2005 (and `06): A Pirate Odyssey
If the filming of “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” was an epic, then the shooting of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest” could only be described as an odyssey. Read More
Los Angeles: The Voyage Begins
Principal photography of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest” and the third entry of the trilogy began on February 28, 2005 with studio and location work in L.A., and although the first few sets were relatively modest-the rum locker of the Black Pearl and the interior of the Port Royal jailhouse-production designer Rick Heinrichs' large-scale masterworks were yet to be seen. Read More
Costumes to Look As If They Were Created in the 18. Century
Hundreds of colorful extras authentically attired by costume designer Penny Rose in perfectly filthy and worn clothes, and carefully made up and coiffed to look like the scurvy knaves they were, populated the tavern, flickering with candlelight... Read More
On to the Caribbean: Return to “Vincy”
On February 28th, 2005, the cast and crew of “Dead Man's Chest” packed their bags, kissed their loved ones, and wedged themselves into a chartered L-1011 jet bound for the distant West Indies…and a location journey of nearly a year's duration which would prove to be as much of an adventure as anyone could have predicted, and as much of a challenge as anyone could have imagined. Read More
Shooting in Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendor
So little known is the “isle of beauty, isle of splendor,” as its national anthem justly boasts of the Commonwealth of Dominica, that some personal effects equipment of the company wound up in the more familiar, but very far-flung, Dominican Republic! Read More
Beware of Falling Coconuts: Adventures in Dominica
A sequence shot both in Dominica and later, the Exumas, called upon Knightley to take swords in hand and kick some serious Flying Dutchman crewmen butt. “The weather was absolutely boiling, and we were in this amazing coconut grove,” she recalls. Read More
“Please Do Not Feed the Iguanas”
By this point in production, the crew had become not unlike pirates themselves, albeit of a kinder, gentler nature. The Jolly Roger was proudly flown from many a production vehicle and support crafts, several crew members sprouted tattoos and sported pierced ears or noses, wore head scarves and bandanas... Read More
Back to the Bahamas, Hurricanes and All
After several weeks of filming a spectacular opening sequence for “Pirates of the Caribbean III,” the company once again boarded a chartered jet on September 19th and flew off to its fourth and final location destination of Grand Bahama Island to begin work at The Bahamas Film Studio at Gold Rock Creek. Read More
Time for Cast and Crew to Return Home
Returning to The Bahamas in the second week of January 2006, the filming of “Dead Man's Chest” finally wrapped with the conclusion of Kraken attack sequences, and, ironically, shooting Captain Jack's introduction at the start of the film... Read More
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 Pirates of the Caribbean Posters
 Exclusive: Sorting Fact From Fiction
What better time then to have a look at the fact behind the fiction and find out if Hollywood's most dashing pirate could really have cut it on the high seas?
Did the pirates of history wear earrings and make their victims walk the plank?
Did they really obey the pirate code (“more a set of guidelines”) that played such a key part in the plot of the first Pirates film, The Curse of the Black Pearl? Read the Answers
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