Latest from Disney–PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 to start shooting next spring

Some Pirates news from Comic Con . . . ComingSoon.net’s Edward Douglas managed to get a brief interview with Disney’s Head of Production Oren Aviv on Thursday, and asked about the status of Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Mr. Aviv confirmed what producer Jerry Bruckheimer told the press a few weeks ago–that Pirates 4 is a high priority for Disney. “[T]hey have plans to be rolling film on the movie as early as next year,” Douglas reports.

“We’re going to shoot Pirates 4 in April and May of next year,” Aviv told ComincSoon.net. “We are going to release it hopefully in 2011 is the plan.” Unlike Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End, which were written and shot simultaneously, Pirates 4 will be a stand-alone effort–although with fond memories of the billions of dollars the first 3 movies earned, Aviv admitted to a hope that Pirates 4 could “be the first of another trilogy.” So look for a character-driven sea tale to start filming next spring, if all goes well . . . .

“It’s important to get the story right and it’s important to me to scale it down, because we can’t get bigger,” Aviv said. “The [Pirates] movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated, and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters.”

The Zone thanks Emma for sharing the news; you can read more on the News & Views forum. To read the ComingSoon.net article, CLICK HERE. –Part-Time Poet