Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Bruckheimer
- In Jerry Bruckheimer
…Pirates of the Caribbean series—The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man’s Chest (2006), At World’s End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). The films, which starred Johnny Depp, were among the highest-grossing movies of all time.
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Depp
- In Johnny Depp: Pirates of the Caribbean and Academy Award nominations
Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003); the film also starred Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. His performance, which was modeled on Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, earned Depp his first Academy Award nomination. He was nominated again the following…
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Disney Company
- In Disney Company: Continuing expansion: ABC, Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, and Lucasfilm
…something of a rebirth when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), a film loosely inspired by a ride at Disney theme parks, scored huge numbers at the box office. The film, which featured Johnny Depp as the sea-addled pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, launched a franchise…
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Knightley
- In Keira Knightley: Stardom: Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride & Prejudice, and Atonement
In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), which starred Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, Knightley played the adventurous Elizabeth Swann. The film was a major box-office success, and Knightley reprised her role in three other Pirates of the Caribbean films: Dead…
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Rush
- In Geoffrey Rush
…Pirates of the Caribbean series: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man’s Chest (2006), At World’s End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). Rush also continued to appear onstage, and in 2009 he made his Broadway debut in Exit the King as…
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Saldana
- In Zoe Saldana
…in the surprise hit movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), and she played an immigration agent in Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (2004), which starred Tom Hanks as a man forced to live in an airport terminal. For the next few years, however, Saldana appeared…
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