New Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Details Emerge
We reported last month that the next adventure of Jack Sparrow and the Disney Pirates’ franchise would be entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, throughout the web that day there was mention of nd it was noted the similarities between a 1987 book dubbed On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. It turns out that wasn’t a coincidence.
The Los Angeles Times‘ Hero Complex blog recently spoke with Powers who revealed that his novel was indeed optioned almost three years ago. Here’s an excerpt from the article about how his book will translate to film.
“I’ve watched all the movies several times, of course, and I think the clear thing they would use is the trip to the Fountain of Youth,” Powers said. “My main character doesn’t overlap with Jack Sparrow at all [in personality or circumstance]; they’re totally different characters. I suppose they might overlap the Geoffrey Rush character Barbossa and Blackbeard. 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.”
“We wanted to do a story about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth, and Tim Powers wrote a book about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth… it just turns out that to do that story you would need that book. It’s a brilliant and Tim Powers is an amazing writer – and it’s a great title. It allows us to draw material from that universe and his expertise.”
“I don’t know if its proper to say it’s based on it but there are enough common elements to think that the book had to be optioned to us to reasonably proceed along that story line.”
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