July 24, 2006 - SPOILER WARNING: This article reveals details about Pirates of the Caribbean 2. If you don't want to know what happens, well, don't go reading stories about the third film!

On Saturday, Disney held a panel in Hall H to show about the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. While it was interesting to learn about the new motion capture techniques used and see how a bunch of actors with heavy eyeshadow and slate grey jumpsuits became Davy Jones and the crew of the Flying Dutchman, it was even more interesting to see a short clip at the end of the presentation that showed footage from next summer's third installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

After the cliffhanger ending of Dead Man's Chest, it appeared Captain Jack Sparrow may have met his maker. Considering he showed up in many of the clips of footage, he is apparently alive and well in the third film. Also seen were some glimpses of the new character Sao Feng, played by Chow Yun-Fat. There were also shots of a large sea battle, with Captain Jack displaying some of his non-traditional battle tactics. There were also shots of swordfights, and scenes with dialogue that show the traditional Pirates of the Caribbean humor will also be present in this sequel. Every major character that appeared in the first two films seemed to appear in this clip, so it would appear the series will be going out with a big bang.

The film releases in theaters in time for Memorial Day 2007

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Screenwriter Terry Rossio has straight-up confirmed the full title for the third Pirates of the Caribbean film over on his website, Worldplayer.com. Despite initial denials of the studio to the contrary, Rossio claims that the film will be subtitled At World's End. In a post on the message boards, Rossio states that it was down to "Worlds End" or "At Worlds End" and that the latter ultimately won out -- he also notes some debate about the use of the apostrophe.

He says, "When you seen the alternatives side by side in text, Worlds End is cleaner-looking on a poster and in print. And for some, it invoked the theme of 'end of an era' better; whereas the At Worlds End pushed the double-meaning more towards a specific location."

The third film in the swashbuckling trilogy will see all of the principle cast return from the first two films and will add Chow Yun-Fat to the mix as pirate Sao Feng.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End sets sail on the big screen on Memorial Day 2007

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so fast there's news on the third movie....

Chow Yun Fatt says "Welcome to Singapore"



official website
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/atworldsend/

Trailer
http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/03/20/not-c...ds-end-trailer/

LOL

But they never show much of Chow, what can he do? Claw pple to death with his fingernails? Or poison pple with his tea?

"A [film]like this tends to involve more elaborate sets both built on location and built on stages. There's more of an intent, for example, to do more exteriors on stage, which is always a challenge, and a fun one," says Heinrichs. "In the movie we go to Singapore. And it was kind of a challenge to figure out what that ought to look like, since there really isn't any recorded evidence from the early 18th century of Singapore. There's mostly later stuff when it's just too much more modern development. But we took some images from other Chinese cities of that era, as well as just kind of sprinkled in other Southeast Asian influences to kind of create hopefully not too much of a Hollywood take, if you will, but certainly a stylized and expressionistic feel of a Chinese/Malaysian [approach]."

While planning this new locale for the third Pirates film, Heinrichs became a bit self-conscious when he realized that one of the film's stars knew more than a little about the real-life Singapore.

"I was a little concerned because Chow Yun-Fat's wife is from Singapore and I was concerned that they'd be offended with the liberties that we took," he laughs. "But I don't think they really know what it looked like 300 year earlier either, and certainly they were thrilled with what they did see and the spirit that it was given. It's a fun Hollywood film that also has this amazing depth of character."

Heinrichs says that his goal was that once anyone walked onto the Singapore sets (on Stage 12 on the Universal lot) he wanted them to have the feeling that they were truly in the environment of a 300-year-old, mythical version of a Southeast Asian metropolis. That's something he always tries to do for the company and the actors, in order to give them a sense of time and place to bounce off of. The Singapore stage is one of the sets he's most proud of; it was a huge challenge that he had to undertake with very little time to get it done, and he thinks it came off "beautifully."

"We had to build a tank for it, so there's a portion of Singapore that's actually built over the water with stilts-based housing," he says. "And then also just land-based and stone-based masonry, so there's the combination of those two styles on one stage at the same time. And then we had an interior set of a bathhouse and had to come up with a whole engineering plot of how exactly to heat up the water and send it through these bamboo pipes. And Gore really wanted the bathhouse to be kind of gross and a bit of a poke of fun at the whole spa culture. So you have Chinese pirates soaking in these skanky looking tubs of water with mushrooms growing all over the place! It's pretty funny."

With the Singapore sets all constructed in Los Angeles, there was no need for the Pirates production to actually travel to that far-off locale.

"The only thing I might have gotten out of a trip to Singapore is I would have been able to really do [perhaps] better research as to how it would have looked back in that time, but I don't really think much is left. The city has so renewed itself over the years, there isn't much left of what we were going after," says Heinrichs.

Instead, as with most of the locales seen in the series, this Singapore is more a representation or an idea of how the city might have looked all those years ago -- perhaps through the googly eyes of a certain Jack Sparrow, that is…

"So Singapore is the name of the city that we were creating but what it represents is a completely different pirate environment that is within the reach of the East India Trading Company," continues Heinrichs. "In the third Pirates movie we go to the other side of the world and beyond, and this is just one stage which we really get into the old mythology of that period. Because the third movie is about the end of the golden age of piracy and the onslaught of the modern global trade and reason and order. And we're celebrating that era in the film."

Obviously, the second and third films, which were shot back to back, had their fair share of location shooting. All of the Southern Caribbean location work for Pirates 3 was done while shooting Pirates 2, so those scenes were fleshed out earlier than, say, the Singapore stuff. Of course, work was also done early in the Bahamas, where the open sea was simulated in a big tank. More of the third film takes place on the water than the second film, so both of these locales figured prominently in At World's End's shoot. And then the third iteration of the production on the two movies began on the soundstages in Los Angeles in August.

"[Singapore] was some of the very first stuff that we shot on Pirates 3," Heinrichs says of the L.A. shoot. "I've been off for three months now, so we were still shooting in January of this year. In fact, that was the big challenge of the time, doing two movies back to back when of course we're frantically trying to finish all of the work for the second picture when we also have to concentrate on this really important scene for a movie that comes out two years later. I don't know how Gore does it, but somehow he has all the threads bound in his head somewhere and he's got all these balls in the air that he's juggling and he manages to make it work somehow."

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I have to admit that my hair stood when the "Welcome to Singapore" bit pop up in the trailers.

Singapore was briefly mentioned (in Part 1) and shown (in Part 2) as a place where prostitutes hang out and where pirates had their fun.

And what about part 3? I guess we'll have to watch to find out

keep in mind they 'created' this old Singapore, so it's not real one..

just hope people won't be offended like when they show the 'island' in 2nd part..

remember to stay after the credit for an extra scene (I would say the "good ending", depend on what you think).

the whole bunch of us are watching the show tonight!

10+ movie.. watch until 12+

remember to stay after the credit for an extra scene (I would say the "good ending", depend on what you think).

the show was ok ok
i watch this show because got zhou ren fa
but i did not watch pirates 1 and 2, so don't wat the story is about

yea especially the first part which jonny depp was nominated for the oscars
but i missed it sia

Not bad, but missed the credits part, didn't know.

ERMMMMM spoiler tag pls!!

Btw, i felt that the whole chow yun fatt scenes were unnecessary

Juz saw it 2day, quite ok, except for the baby crying behind me... seriously.. if u are a parent with kids who dun even learn the language let alone understand the movie, get a nanny, or juz wait for the damn dvds, juz becoz u wanna see the show, u bring ur kids in, they make a fuss and ruined everyone else's movie experience....

Overall IMO i can say the movie is better then spiderman3

btw one qns
doesnt the extra scene kid looks like the kid at the start? and he's even holding the coin b4 he got hanged...

ERMMMMM spoiler tag pls!!

Btw, i felt that the whole chow yun fatt scenes were unnecessary

lol... he is a pirate lord but he is so easily killed by a blast...

Juz saw it 2day, quite ok, except for the baby crying behind me... seriously.. if u are a parent with kids who dun even learn the language let alone understand the movie, get a nanny, or juz wait for the damn dvds, juz becoz u wanna see the show, u bring ur kids in, they make a fuss and ruined everyone else's movie experience....

Overall IMO i can say the movie is better then spiderman3

btw one qns
doesnt the extra scene kid looks like the kid at the start? and he's even holding the coin b4 he got hanged...