Related bit of trivia: MI was heavily inspired by Tim Powers&#x27; novel &quot;On Stranger Tides&quot; (which is a classic piece of secret history, involving Blackbeard, the Fountain of Youth, and of course zombie pirates). For the newest Pirates of the Caribbean movie, they bought the rights to the novel -- but pretty much the only thing they kept from the book was the title and the Blackbeard character. Everything else has been changed, for the worse. (So much worse.) So Disney&#x27;s two pirate franchises are related, in a weird way.