Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)

Pirates of the Caribbean
Directed byGore Verbinski (1–3)
Rob Marshall (4)
Espen Sandberg/Joachim Rønning (5)
Screenplay byTed Elliott (1–4)
Terry Rossio (1–4)
Jeff Nathanson (5)
Story byTed Elliott (1–4)
Terry Rossio (1–5)
Stuart Beattie (1)
Jay Wolpert (1)
Jeff Nathanson (5)
Based onPirates of the Caribbean
by Walt Disney
On Stranger Tides
by Tim Powers (4)
Produced byJerry Bruckheimer
StarringJohnny Depp (1–5)
Geoffrey Rush (1–5)
Kevin McNally (1–5)
Orlando Bloom (1–3, 5)
Keira Knightley (1–3, 5)
(See below)
Music byKlaus Badelt (1)
Hans Zimmer (2–4)
Geoff Zanelli (5)
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Running time
726 minutes (1–5)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetTotal (5 films):
$1.274–1.364 billion
Box officeTotal (5 films):
$4.524 billion

Pirates of the Caribbean is an American fantasy supernatural swashbuckler film series produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and based on Walt Disney's theme park attraction of the same name. The film series serves as a major component of the titular media franchise. Based on a fictionalized version of the Golden Age of Piracy (which is circa 1650–1726), the films' plots are set primarily in the Caribbean.

Directors of the series include Gore Verbinski (films 1–3), Rob Marshall (4), Joachim Rønning (5), and Espen Sandberg (5). The series is primarily written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (1–4); other writers include Stuart Beattie (1), Jay Wolpert (1) and Jeff Nathanson (5).

The stories follow the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), with Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), and Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally) over the course of the films. Other characters featured in the original trilogy include James Norrington (Jack Davenport), Pintel (Lee Arenberg), Ragetti (Mackenzie Crook), Marty (Martin Klebba), Cotton (David Bailie), Murtogg and Mullroy (Giles New & Angus Barnett), Bootstrap Bill Turner (Stellan Skarsgård), Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), Governor Swann (Jonathan Pryce), Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy).

The fourth film features Angelica (Penélope Cruz), Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Philip Swift (Sam Claflin), and Syrena (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey), and Scrum (Stephen Graham). The fifth film features Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem), Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) and Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario) among the aforementioned characters.

The film series started in 2003 with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which had a positive reception from audiences and film critics. It grossed $654 million worldwide.[1] After the first film's success, Walt Disney Pictures announced that a film series was in the works. The franchise's second film, subtitled Dead Man's Chest, was released in 2006 and broke financial records worldwide the day of its premiere. Dead Man's Chest became the top-grossing movie of 2006 with almost $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office. The third film in the series, subtitled At World's End, followed in 2007 earning $960 million. Disney released a fourth film, subtitled On Stranger Tides, in 2011 in conventional 2D, Digital 3-D and IMAX 3D. On Stranger Tides succeeded in also grossing more than $1 billion,[1] becoming the second film in the franchise and only the eighth film in history to do this, at the time of release. A fifth film, subtitled Dead Men Tell No Tales, was released in 2017.

The franchise has grossed over $4.5 billion worldwide;[1] it is the 16th-highest-grossing film series of all time, and is the first film franchise to produce two or more movies that grossed over $1 billion.

  1. ^ a b c "Johnny Depp Movies List by Box Office Sales". JohnnyDeppMoviesList.org. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2015.