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Pirates of the Carribean 2 (and 3)

21:12 / 17.07.05

Walt Disney Pictures may have given a first look at a picture of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest villain Davey Jones at the San Diego Comic-Con. The studio handed out the following poster, which may show the character played by Bill Nighy in the first of two upcoming sequels.

In the follow-up, due out July 7, 2006, Captain Jack (Johnny Depp) owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. If Jack can't figure a crafty way out of this one, he'll be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation.

Bill Nighy previously stated that Jones is the villain and that the character will be created using special effects. "I am a very, very, very, very bad man and I am there to make people suffer in all new ways, in ways that you won't have seen before," he said. "I have a boat and I have a crew, and they are really evil buggers. I'm so computer generated that you might have trouble spotting me. You'll know it's me, but you might have to check the credits afterwards," he laughed.

Supposed Dutchman character sketch:

Pros: Johnny Depp, pirates doing pirate things
Cons: A sequel, being made back to back with another sequel, Orlando Bloom

Also Pro: CAPTAIN FUCKING CTHULHU!

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21:32 / 17.07.05

Is Keith Richards still gonna be Jack Sparrow's dad? I do hope so.

I can't wait for these, honestly. The first was one of the most fun movies ever.

Regrettable Juvenilia

23:14 / 17.07.05

Pros: Bill Nighy, a man so good he can make Richard Curtis scripts bearable for the duration of the scenes he's in.

Cons: potential unrecognisability of Bill Nighy.

Pros: Bill fucking Nighy!

23:58 / 17.07.05

And Chow Yun Fat, apparently.

00:48 / 18.07.05

Chow is actually set for the third sequel.

Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have enlisted Chow Yun-fat for "Pirates of the Caribbean 3". Chow will play Capt. Sao Feng, a notorious pirate who plays a major role in the second sequel to 2003's Disney blockbuster reports Variety. It also marks the actor's first English-language role since "Bulletproof Monk" in 2003.

"Pirates" 2 and 3 are shooting back-to-back, with production running through January. The shoot is currently in a scheduled hiatus so director Gore Verbinski can ready portions of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" for post-production in readiness for its July 2006 release. "Pirates 3" is scheduled for Summer 2007.

That picture of Davey Jones is fuggin' awesome.

19:41 / 18.07.05

I wonder if they're playing Fat as a Caribbean pirate, or as one of the ones who plied the China Sea.

They had kung fu pirates off Hainan and Taiwan, you know.

I dunno how I feel about Davey Jones captaining the Flying Dutchman -- I allus thought that captain should be Dutch, you know?

19:53 / 18.07.05

P'raps Davey Jones is a colloquial term, y'know? As with Flying Dutchman, as well?

Like Old Scratch, Beelzebub, Satan, and Lucifer are all the same fellow -cept to different fellows. And that sometimes ze looks like Jack Nicholson, George Burns, or Elizabeth Hurley.

P'raps it actually is Chthulhu, in boating wear.

'Course, this is Disney, and integral mythology is hardly important to them.

17:32 / 19.07.05

Squeeeeeee!

I have nothing more useful to add.

Foust is SO authentic

19:20 / 19.07.05

Maybe Fat will lead a boatful of Ninjas against Depp's pirates?

19:54 / 19.07.05

Can Keith Richards even act? (I know he only has to act like himself but still.) I think Bill Nighy would be a better cast for Sparrow’s father. But still… that pic looks amazing.

23:11 / 19.07.05

Damn, and here I thought that guy from the Monkees was going to be in it...

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09:21 / 20.07.05

Shot in my beloved Dominica, and practically the whole island have applied for extras work.

I'll cry if I see my cousins as cannibals. A couple would look absolutely convincing.

18:50 / 21.07.05

For a minute there I thought you said connon-balls.

16:41 / 25.09.05

>> P'raps Davey Jones is a colloquial term, y'know?

Dave Jones is indeed a colloquial term - "Davey Jones' Locker" is sailor-pirate talk for 'the very very bottom of the ocean floor.' If you're sent to (or visiting) Davey Jones' locker you've drowned at the bottom of the sea.

I'm not aware of their ever having been an actual Davey Jones or where the phrase came from, but who knows, maybe there is an origin. Kind of like calling one's penis a "John Thomas," I doubt that phrase was based on an actual guy named John Thomas, it's just a generic name aka John Smith.

A fall of geckos

17:29 / 25.09.05

"I'm not aware of their ever having been an actual Davey Jones or where the phrase came from"

I remember being told that Davey is in this case a corruption of Duppy (West Indian spirit).

I don't know if there's any actual evidence of this though.

00:24 / 26.09.05

It's a double corruption: "Davey Jones" = Duppy (a haunting ghost or spirit) + Jonah, the prophet who brought bad luck to his ship until he was thrown overboard.

21:49 / 28.09.05

Thanks for the phrase origin, one of the many reasons Barbelith is cool.

A quick scan of IMDB.com revealed some interesting stuff:

Knightley is listed as playing "Elizabeth Swan" in 1 and 2 but "Elizabeth Turner" in 3. So she gets hitched to Will Turner at some point (not like that was a big surprise or anything).

>> Stellan Skarsgård .... 'Bootstrap' Bill Turner

!!!!!!

flashback or the currently-older father of Will Turner?

And I'm hearing more rumors that Keith Richards turned down the chance to appear in 2 as Jack Sparrow's dad. Anyone hear the same...?

A fall of geckos

14:39 / 25.11.05

The Pirates of the Caribbean 2, teaser trailer is now online. It looks a little silly, and quite possibly marvellous.

19:38 / 25.11.05

innnteresting. looks fun - and Davey Jones looks fantastic.

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06:02 / 26.11.05

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.

Not only is it CAPTAIN FUCKING CTHULHU...

...but were those Deep Ones rising out of the water? Is THIS what Cthulhu does while he waits for the stars to be right? Does he get some of his fun loving Deep One drinking buddies out from The Old Shoggoth Bar in sunken R'lyeh and have them crew his Flying Dutchmen while he hunts for SOULS?

Look! The Tcho-Tcho even make an appearence!

"Well, maties, I got a new name for our ship. Once we crewed the Black Pearl. Now...its the SS Elder Sign, I'm afraid, me hearties. Hang the stones from the mast and pray to the Elder Gods that old 'Davey Jones' don't come upon us from behind. Higgins! Put down that golden mead and silly stone flute! None've us are gettin' away on sky bats this time, saavy?"

This is going to fucking ROCK!

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11:18 / 02.12.05

Plus, and this is childish in the extreme, but I know all of those locations...that's like, my beach! Well, sort of. For some reason this is making me smile unstoppably and feel all warm and runny.

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13:13 / 26.03.06

Trailer.

Snakes on a Plane, Pirates 2... this is gonna be a brilliant summer!

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13:16 / 26.03.06

(Not sure if that's the same trailer already posted- couldn't find it on the link above).

14:30 / 28.03.06

I have a hunch that Will Turner and Jack Sparrow will get to know each other better in this movie.

14:35 / 28.03.06

Have I ever mentioned before that if you re-watch the first movie, substituting the word "homosexual" for "pirate" at every occurence, the result is the single best movie ever made?

"MY FATHER WAS NOT A HOMOSEXUAL!" "Your father *was* a homosexual, and a good man!"

"He's not a blacksmith... he's a homosexual!"

Etc. We figured this out about ten minutes into our first viewing of the movie, and we clearly enjoyed it waaaay more than anyone else in the theatre as a result.

Madman in the ruins.

11:40 / 23.03.07

The trailer for Pirates III is up.
First impessions. it looks amazing, so its a case of.
a. All the best bits are in the trailer
b. It will be a good film and 100% than Dead Mans Chest.

14:14 / 23.03.07

Fuck me!

That looks The Shit!

17:31 / 23.03.07

>>>>substituting the word "homosexual" for "pirate"

Mate, it doesn't have to go that far. "Pirate" is still "pirate". I wonder what people think when they wonder why Depp chose to play the role in that vein. I'm still waiting for some improv moment from him (like the "snip snip dickalick" or whatever from 2) saying something like "oh, they're smoking pirates!" or something to that effect.

Am I the only one who thinks there are many jokes that are for the kids, and many jokes that are for other audiences?

And after watching that trailer, could I be right that Keira Knightly might actually amazingly kick some serious ass and they'll make Orlando Bloom shut the hell up or make him start acting other than his Legolas accent of urgency? You know, this actually might be like the 1st, full of "weeeeee!" and weird subtexts that shouldn't be in a Disney film (and other moments of "yay! Jack's doing something silly!!!!!!", like that vg cats comic)?