Pirates 4's source

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by: Tony Lang Oct. 7, 2009

Stranger Tides book cover

Wanna know what Pirates 4 will be about? Here's a tip: read the book.

Remember at the end of Pirates 3, where Jack Sparrow mentions he's going after the Fountain of Youth? Then at D23 when part 4's title was revealed as ON STRANGER TIDES? Turns out there's a book published in 1987 under that very title which centers on a guy who hooks up with Blackbeard and his pirates for a quest to find the Fountain of Youth. Lawsuit? Not really.

Author Tim Powers got swamped with fan mail and legal advice when the announcement was made, and he finally revealed to the folks of LA Times he's been in cahoots with the Mouse House for a while; his book indeed IS the source for the new film.

"I was still -- as far as I understood -- not free to talk about it," Powers said this week. "Then about a week ago my agent wrote and said, 'You're now able to say that in fact Disney did option the book.' That happened a while ago, it'll be three years in April."

The author mentions the story will probably have to be fiddled with, as the main buccaneer fits more Barbossa than Jack Sparrow. "The only thing I feel certain they will hold on to is the Fountain of Youth since they telegraphed that at the end of the last movie," he concluded.

Read the book? Pitch in!

Source: Los Angeles Times

Extra Tidbit: Anybody watched ABC's EASTWICK? There's a guy in there who looks smack dab like a young Johnny Depp. So much that one character literally points out he looks like Johnny Depp. Just thought I'd say.

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Huttjos
8:13PM on 10/07/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
the pirates movies were good fun. bring it.
the pirates movies were good fun. bring it.
 
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DPlainview
2:46PM on 10/07/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Is the Eastwick actor Skeet Ulrich? Either way he should look forward to having pretty much the same amount of success in his career.
Is the Eastwick actor Skeet Ulrich? Either way he should look forward to having pretty much the same amount of success in his career.
 
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track100
4:50AM on 10/07/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Tim Powers
He was a creative writing instructor at my grad school, Chapman University in the OC. I never got to take his class, but I did take several from James P. Blaylock. They were both close friends with Philip K. Dick before he died.
He was a creative writing instructor at my grad school, Chapman University in the OC. I never got to take his class, but I did take several from James P. Blaylock. They were both close friends with Philip K. Dick before he died.