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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides gets mini budget


04 May 2010

The fourth installment to the hugely popular 'Pirates of the Caribbean' franchise, is hitting rocky waters under new Disney chairman Rich Ross, apparently the fourth outing directed by Rob Marshall will only have a small budget of $200 million to play with compared to the $300 million that Gore Verbinski had to throw at the last installment.

This has meant screenwriters Ted Eliott and Terry Rossio are keeping Johnny Depp and co on land as much as possible. Filming is taking place in Hawaii and London (rather than LA and the Caribbean) for the tax incentives. The shoot will be fifty days shorter than At Worlds End, and there will be several hundred fewer FX shots. The script has lost an expensive scene on a frozen river Thames, and a chase through the streets of London has had its schedule cut from a fortnight to under a week.

"The hard thing is you have to make painful decisions that cut into some very entertaining sequences," says Bruckheimer, but concedes "the audience will never miss them, Ross wants to be mean and lean and cost effective."

Gore Verbinski had some serious clashes with the studio brass over the wildly spiralling costs of At World's End, and most would agree that the bloated second sequel was not necessarily the better for them. If On Stranger Tides trades overblown spectacle for, say, a coherent screenplay, we reckon that's a decent compromise. 

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