Gore Verbinski, the director of the Pirates of he Caribbean movies has decided to move on from the franchise. He won’t be directing Pirates 4. The good folks over at ComingSoon give us this:
Variety is reporting that director Gore Verbinski, whose main claim to fame came from directing Disney’s blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” action-adventure trilogy to gross $2.6 billion worldwide, has decided that three pirate movies is enough. He’s informed Disney and producer Jerry Buckheimer that he won’t be directing the fourth installment, which is currently scheduled to start shooting in 2010.
This is surprising to me, but I suppose shouldn’t be shocking. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies have declined in quality with each movie to the point that the 3rd one was completely unwatchable to me… which is a shame because I absolutely love the first one.
Verbinski is gearing up to do one of the only video game movies that I think actually may have enough solid narrative story behind it to actually make a good film… BioShock. Admittedly I haven’t played the game, but I’ve watched a couple of my buddies play it for hours and I was really impressed with how much depth there was to it.
It’ll be interesting to see how the flavor of the Pirates franchise changes without its director.
