Rob Marshall is the Front-Runner to Direct 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4'
This rumor seems confident enough to run
I typically tend to avoid these stories when a name is attached to a picture, but their involvement isn't confirmed, but Michael Fleming's piece at Variety saying Rob Marshall looks like he will be directing Pirates of the Caribbean 4 seems quite confident unless things completely derail as he writes:
Sources say unless things break down at the last moment, Marshall will be steering the pirate vehicle's next installment.
Visually I would say Marshall fits right in with the franchise, and Marshall isn't even all that unfamiliar with big budget set pieces, but I would say it seems like a long walk from a film like Chicago or Memoirs with a Geisha to a Pirates of the Caribbean flick. Then again the fact Disney is hoping to scale things back from the second and third installments of the franchise that went CG-heavy may change our perception. After all, the first Pirates feature looks like a walk-in-the-park compared to the scope of its sequels.
During Comic Con last week Disney's Head of Production Oren Aviv told Coming Soon, "It's important to get the story right and it's important to me to scale it down, because we can't get bigger. The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters."
Speaking of characters, Fleming also adds that while Marshall's involvement wasn't immediately confirmed, sources said things look good enough that the studio has begun casting new characters that will appear in the picture.
Aviv also told Coming Soon, "We're going to shoot Pirates 4 in April and May of [2010]. We are going to release it hopefully in 2011 is the plan." He said that this time they would only be doing one movie this time that would "hopefully be the first of another trilogy."
The plan is to get the film into production before Johnny Depp does The Lone Ranger. As for Marshall, he has Nine coming out this November.
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I wont deny Marshall has promise, but I dont know if I see this fitting. To be fair, I hate both Memoirs and Chicago so I am not entirely optimistic. I will give them the benefit of the doubt however.
I dont want to see just one installment though. I hate when there is one detached movie from a trilogy, I say if they do this, it should be a new trilogy following Sparrow and hopefully Geoffrey Rush will be back. My only thing is if they do another trilogy, please keep one set of writer/directors so that the three movies are horribly disconjoined. Look at X Men the Last Stand and how it compares to the first two. It stands out like a sore thumb in all the wrong ways.
Odd, but interesting. The only film of Marshall's that I've seen is Chicago, which… is an enjoyable film, but an unremarkable one. I'm always interested to see "serious" directors try their hand at major franchises, and I mean, sometimes it works: look at Christopher Nolan and his Batman films. But for something like, say the Bond films, it generally doesn't work. The three most "prestigious" directors to tackle the Bond films, Lewis Gilbert, Michael Apted, and Marc Forster, have all made curious misfires, with one notable exception being Gilbert's exceptional "The Spy Who Loved Me."
So, colour me interested. At least Marshall is someone with vision. I enjoyed the Pirates sequel, but I accept that it was a misfore for Ellliot, Rossio and Verbinski to take the Star Wars sequel route, rather than the Indiana Jones method. Bring it back to Jack, dial it all down, and you could have a cracking swashbuckler on your hands. Actually, as good as his death scene was, I now wish they hadn't killed Beckett in At World's End… he would have made a good recurring villain.
Not again with the scaling down and "reboot" nonense. The 4th should be far bigger than 3 (not longer). And wasn't the 2nd movie all about Jack? They should keep it all about him and Barbossa, get Calypso back, a new story and make it the biggest, best yet. I hope they don't go the Friday The 13th remake route, with scaling down all the good stuff and only leaving what nobody cares that much about…
On an almost completely unrelated note, what's with all the nines in movie titles all of a sudden? "9", "Nine" and "District 9" are all upcoming. There are going to be some confusing movie conversations coming up as a result.
@Chewtoy: don't you know that 9 is the new 7?
What. The. Fck. No. Rob Marshall should stay the hell away from this. The Pirates franchise is a disaster by now, and no self-respecting director should get anywhere near this cheap cash cow. Why? It wasn't the direction that ruined the second and third movies: it was the overblown storyline. There is just about no way Pirates 4 can recover the franchise from the convoluted depths to which it has sunk. Keira Knightley was smart to get out of the franchise while she could. Everyone else would be wise to do the same.