Just a few years ago, Tim Burton had to butt heads with studios to get them to agree to casting Johnny Depp as the lead. Everyone knew that Depp was a great actor. He had countless terrific performances to prove that, from Edward Scissorhands to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape to Donnie Brasco and Ed Wood. Box office draw was the title he had somehow avoided. All of that ended in the most unlikely circumstances, headlining a long-thought-dead genre, the pirate movie, and creating an endlessly entertaining character named Jack Sparrow – by Jeff Otto for IGN.
