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Even More Details On Pirates 4's Book Adaptation

By Tim Gomez: 2009-10-07 22:36:48
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Even More Details On Pirates 4's Book Adaptation Earlier today, we reported on the confirmation that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides would in fact be based on the Tim Powers book of the same name, which follows a puppeteer turned pirate named Jack Shandy who must stop a crew of sinister pirates from using a Fountain of Youth for less-than-good purposes.

Powers talked a little about what he believed Disney would do with the book and which portions he thought they would use and throw out. Meanwhile Empire also got a chance to talk to Pirates screenwriter Terry Rossio about the adaptation. "We wanted to do a story about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth, and Tim Powers wrote a book about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth,” Rossio stated. “It just turns out that to do that story you would need that book. It's brilliant and Tim Powers is an amazing writer - and it's a great title. It allows us to draw material from that universe and his expertise..”

I think what most people want to know, though, is whether or not the new flick will be a straight adaptation of the novel or will it be more of a basis for the story. Regarding this, Rossio said, “I don't know if it’s proper to say it's based on it, but there are enough common elements to think that the book had to be optioned to us to reasonably proceed along that story line." Sorry, Rossio. That sounds like it’s “based on.”


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