Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-76391.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides Featurette Includes Blackbeard, Mermaids, Zombi</b></a> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe type="text/html" width="400" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZOEin4bLh8?rel=0" height="390" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player"></iframe></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Newly released<em> Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides</em> featurette pieces together the previously seen introduction with Captain Jack Sparrow with scenes from the upcoming film including footage of Ian McShane as Blackbeard and Penelope Cruz as Capt Jack's former flame.</p>
Originally Posted By utahjosh Ya know what, I think it's gonna be great. I get that 2 and 3 were overblown, but this looks just right.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I really am a little concerned about them using Blackbeard in this film. Yes, they've had Davy Jones and all sorts of other pirate-lore references throughout the series, but this one is different: Blackbeard was a real person. Having him running around with Jack Sparrow, mermaids, and all sorts of magic spells just worries me. It seems like fewer and fewer people realize that he's a real person, but we spent about a month studying him and other 'local' pirates in fourth grade in North Carolina (the state history year). I'm concerned that including a real historical figure (and the only real person in the entire series) in the fantasy world will just continue his progression away from the history books.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I'm concerned that including a real historical figure (and the only real person in the entire series) in the fantasy world will just continue his progression away from the history books.<< Or it will make kids curious to know more about him when they find out there was a real Blackbeard.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra >>I really am a little concerned about them using Blackbeard in this film. Yes, they've had Davy Jones and all sorts of other pirate-lore references throughout the series, but this one is different: Blackbeard was a real person. Having him running around with Jack Sparrow, mermaids, and all sorts of magic spells just worries me.<< It's actually being faithful to the book. For this particular film, they purchased the rights to Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides, and that book does include such diverse elements as Blackbeard, zombies, and the fountain of youth.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Just because somebody wrote a book that included Blackbeard in a mythical setting doesn't make me feel any better about them using him for the film. If there's already that kind of stuff out there, I'm not sure I see a need for more of it. And if they're using an existing story as a basis for the film, how are they going to fit in Jack and Barbosa? They don't exactly seem like they'd be easy characters to plug into another story. "^^^Like Pocahontas???" ...she's a real person? : )
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <-- likes Penelope Cruz better than Kiera Knightly <-- also likes women who are actually built like women and not little boys. Just sayin'
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <--- can never tell the difference between Natalie Portman and Kiera Knightly.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Blackbeard was already used in a previous Disney film in the 1960s in Blackbeard's Ghost. I'm sure that the original cutthroat was never like the somewhat "charming" version of the character Peter Ustinov portrayed in that film. My guess is that Blackbeard in this POTC film may actually be more viscious and "true to his character" than the 1960s counterpart.
Originally Posted By basil fan Keira Knightly played one of Amidala's (Natalie Portman's) handmaidens in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. House of Mouse <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/house.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...use.html</a>
Originally Posted By basil fan Really? Attack of the Clones? I thought it was Phantom Menace. Oh well, I'm more into eps IV, V & VI. I stand corrected. House of Mouse <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/house.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...use.html</a>
Originally Posted By brotherdave No, sorry, I thought I might be misunderstood. I was trying to be funny with "Attack of the Clones" (referencing Kiera Knightly and Natalie Portman). I didn't mean that was the film they were in together. It was indeed Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Kiera Knightly portrayed Queen Amidala's (Natalie Portman) body guard double. Sorry for the confusion, Basil!
Originally Posted By cheesybaby <<can never tell the difference between Natalie Portman and Kiera Knightly.>> Neither could the Trade Federation.
