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"When screenwriters Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot discovered Tim Powers&amp;#039;s novel On Stranger Tides, with its use of Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth, it sparked ideas about bringing the Pirates Of The Caribbean series back for another spin. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer set about re-assembling his trusted team - but this time with a new director at the helm. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s fast, he&amp;#039;s smart, he&amp;#039;s got enormous concentration and he&amp;#039;s got great taste. You look at his movies, they&amp;#039;re all beautiful films,&amp;quot; says Bruckheimer of Rob Marshall, the Nine filmmaker who&amp;#039;s stepping into Gore Verbinski&amp;#039;s shoes. The sharp transition from musicals to action isn&amp;#039;t a concern for Bruckheimer, either: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s all movement of bodies. [Rob&amp;#039;s] a master of movement and of performance. He comes from stage directing where it&amp;#039;s all performance. He&amp;#039;s a good storyteller, not that Gore isn&amp;#039;t; he has a totally different background.&amp;quot; Rossio, who is serving as an executive producer on Pirates 4, notes of the new man in charge: &amp;quot;Rob&amp;#039;s theatre background is really apparent. Rob works outward from the actor in terms of staging and storytelling. I would say Gore works from the story toward the actor; story, then cinema, then bringing the character into it.&amp;quot; He&amp;#039;s quick to dismiss the perception that parts 2 and 3 were too narratively dense for audiences, citing Lost as an example of something that rewarded dedicated fans with its complexity, but insists that part 4 is designed as a stand-alone picture. &amp;quot;This film is a little bit more like a James Bond movie. There&amp;#039;s a beginning, middle and an end,&amp;quot; he says. This particular tale will also see Captain Jack face off against zombies, the &amp;quot;fast, quick-moving&amp;quot; non-George A. Romero kind. &amp;quot;All three films we&amp;#039;ve done are a combination of romance, humour, comedy, adventure and ghost stories. Real kind of scary, little-kids-run-out-of-the-theatre, frightening ghost stories,&amp;quot; he explains. &amp;quot;I guess we try to go for the macabre so that it&amp;#039;s consistent with the ghost story and interesting as opposed to just gory stuff. I think that&amp;#039;s consistent with what we did with the zombies as well.&amp;quot;  3D will bring a new element to On Stranger Tides. Bruckheimer is eager to stress that the entire movie has been designed for the form and won&amp;#039;t fall foul to the post-production conversion process that worked out so poorly for Clash Of The Titans and The Last Airbender. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s immersive, in the theatre you&amp;#039;re part of the movie,&amp;quot; he observes of the new technology. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re the first major motion picture, exterior picture to be filming in 3D. Avatar and the other pictures you see are mostly [filmed on stages] or conversions, this is all done in 3D.&amp;quot; Bruckheimer is speaking just days after Depp has surprised a class full of 9-year-olds at a Greenwich school. Responding to Beatrice Delap&amp;#039;s letter, the star turned up dressed as Captain Jack. It was, says Bruckheimer, typical of Depp. &amp;quot;It was all him, it came from him. He got this letter that moved him about a girl who wanted to stage a mutiny against her teachers and I was supposed to go with him but unfortunately I had a presentation to make to the Disney executives,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;The little girl was very smart. Johnny told nobody, only about six of us knew that this was happening and we wanted to keep it that way.&amp;quot; Depp has great affection for his alter ego, and it appears that he&amp;#039;s one of the key driving forces behind this latest sequel. Rossio points out that he contributed much in the writing process, helping to shape characters Sparrow comes into contact with. This enthusiasm from the leading man means a Pirates 5 is almost inevitable. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a whole board with ideas, but the audience decides. The audience and Johnny Depp will decide!&amp;quot; jokes Rossio. Bruckheimer is more certain, saying: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re already working on another story. We&amp;#039;re at the beginning stages, we&amp;#039;re actively looking at it.&amp;quot; Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens in cinemas on May 18, 2011. Tomorrow: Digital Spy meets Johnny Depp! &amp;gt; Sam Claflin &amp;gt; Astrid Berges-Frisbey &amp;gt; Designing POTC: On Stranger Tides  Leave your comments on this entry in the space below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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