Pirates of the Caribbean 3 – At World’s End
About the Film
With Lord Cutler Beckett wielding the heart of Davy Jones to hunt pirates to extinction, the surviving crew make a desperate gamble: they must sail off the edge of the map to Davy Jones’s Locker and bring Captain Jack Sparrow back from the dead. Guided by the resurrected Barbossa and the enigmatic Tia Dalma, and forced into an uneasy alliance with the treacherous pirate lord Sao Feng, they cross into the world of the dead to retrieve him.
Back among the living, the nine Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court gather at Shipwreck Cove to decide whether to fight or hide. When Elizabeth is named Pirate King, the freed sea-goddess Calypso unleashes a titanic maelstrom for the final battle against Beckett’s armada. Amid the storm Will Turner is mortally wounded and takes Jones’s place as captain of the Flying Dutchman, bound to ferry lost souls — a bittersweet victory that ends the trilogy and sets Jack sailing off in search of the next adventure.
Plot synopsis by johnny-depp.org.
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow spends the film’s opening trapped in Davy Jones’s Locker, splintered into a crew of bickering copies of himself in a surreal, purgatorial limbo — a chance for Depp to play the character at his most gleefully unhinged. Once rescued, Jack is as slippery as ever, playing every faction against the others in pursuit of immortality while still, in his own crooked way, doing the right thing when it counts.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Captain Jack SparrowJohnny Depp
Will TurnerOrlando Bloom
Elizabeth SwannKeira Knightley
Hector BarbossaGeoffrey Rush
Davy JonesBill Nighy
Sao FengChow Yun-fat
Bootstrap Bill TurnerStellan Skarsgård
Lord Cutler BeckettTom Hollander
Tia Dalma / CalypsoNaomie Harris
Captain TeagueKeith Richards
Crew
DirectorGore Verbinski
ScreenplayTed Elliott & Terry Rossio
MusicHans Zimmer
CinematographyDariusz Wolski
ProducerJerry Bruckheimer
StudioWalt Disney Pictures
“The world’s still the same. There’s just… less in it.”
— Captain Jack Sparrow, At World’s End
Filming Locations
- Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah (about 70 days of filming)
- A former aircraft hangar in Palmdale, California (the climactic maelstrom battle)
- Molokai, Hawaii
- Universal Studios backlot, California (Singapore sequences)
- Niagara Falls (second unit)
More about this film
Trivia
- With a production budget around $300 million, it became the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release.
- It was shot back-to-back with Dead Man’s Chest; the first assembly cut reportedly ran about three hours.
- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards — an inspiration for Jack Sparrow — appears as Jack’s father, Captain Teague.
- The film ends the original trilogy on a deliberately darker, more elaborate note, with its huge maelstrom battle as the centrepiece.
Awards
- 2007 MTV Movie Award — Best Comedic Performance (Johnny Depp) Won
- 2008 Academy Award — Best Makeup, nominated
- 2008 Academy Award — Best Visual Effects, nominated
- 2007 People’s Choice Awards — Favorite Movie & Favorite Threequel Won
DVD Easter Eggs
- Simon Phillips featurette: in “The Pirate Maestro: The Music of Hans Zimmer” (Disc 2), press Left twice then Down and select the black circle.
- Bonneville Salt Flats featurette: under “Masters of Design” (Disc 2, page 2), open “James Byrkit: Sao Feng’s Map” and press Up twice.
- Singapore set time-lapse: under “Masters of Design,” highlight “Rick Heinrichs: Singapore” and press Left then Down.
- An extra Will & Elizabeth scene plays after the end credits.
