TerryRossio: Another advantage of the strong audience response to the first one is that you have more money to make the second one so, well, you can build an extra ship, that sort of thing.
TerryRossio: The jumping off point was to look at the story from the point of view of the Jack Sparrow character.
TerryRossio: There are good storytelling techniques that you might use for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Network -- films that are considered in the category of what might be called Academy Award bait.
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ZackProton.com -- Interview with screenwriter Terry Rossio(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
TerryRossio: There’s no one answer to that, because the shortest time we’ve ever written a screenplay is two weeks.
TerryRossio: No, I’m shy and I like to be behind the scenes, behind the keyboard, behind the camera.
TerryRossio: Oh yeah, it was very fun on Pirates of the Caribbean to be in the Caribbean.
TerryRossio: -the less Johnny says, the more truthful he is. The more words he uses, the more you should mistrust him.
TerryRossio: The most important commandment is to sustain interest-if you do that, everything else follows; you can move people emotionally, you can make them laugh, you can do all sorts of things.
TerryRossio: Sometimes the physical constraints on a movie are the people working on the movie and Ted's much more able to navigate that.
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The attraction was the source of Terry’s favorite moment in “Black Pearl”—“When Barbossa drinks the wine and it splashes down through his chest.
Terry laughs, “That's like asking someone who has just collapsed at the finish line to run the marathon again!” Fans will have to wait and wonder to see what the upcoming chapters of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" saga will hold.
Terry does say that the third film will wrap up the story of Captain Jack, Will, and Elizabeth in a satisfying way -- but as old sea dogs know, there's always room for more adventure, if that's what the cards should hold.
TerryRossio: Keira, in a way, you can say she didn't grow because she was so good to begin with.
TerryRossio: There's a part in it that has about 16 speaking parts to it and it's an incredibly pivotal scene in the story and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
TerryRossio: When we ended up the shaping of the ending to 2, there was skepticism, but it definitely worked.
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CURSE OF THE PIRATE MOVIE (rN 1992, screenwriters Ted Elliott and TerryRossio were hot off the success of their script for Aladdin, a blockbuster hit for The Walt Disney Studios that continued...
TerryRossio, Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich: Based on the character owned and created by Toho Co. Ltd.: Executive Producers.
In his essay "A Foot in the Door," TerryRossio (who cowrote Aladdin), puts it this way: As a screenwriter, your choice of film premise is your call- ing card.
Screenwriters Ted Elliott and TerryRossio ("Shrek," "National Treasure") have their very own website (Wordplayer.com, which focuses on screenwriting, obviously), and it's there that the good news was announced.
Also back for another dip in the pool are director Gore Verbinski and screenwriters Ted Elliott and TerryRossio -- which means the sequel is going to rock the proverbial house.
Davenport also mentions that the terrific team of screenwriters known as Elliott and Rossio are also along for the ride, and that the sequels may include "a bit of cross-dressing — no, I'm kidding." The first follow-up, entitled "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is presently penciled for release on July of 2006.
Well, screenwritersTerryRossio and Ted Elliot recently added another feather to their cap when the movie they wrote, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, bested Spider-Man for the best opening weekend box office.
TerryRossio: One of the strangest things about working on any film, we've been involved with a number of films that have had commercial success, when you're working on the film you're pretty much convinced that you're involved in an absolute disaster.
TerryRossio: I think the real challenge for everybody was shooting two films at once.
Along with his writing partner Ted Elliott, Rossio has written some of the most successful American films of the past 15 years, including Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Shrek.
TerryRossio Filmography and Biography, provided by Wordplayer.com
Building the Bomb, Rossio's account of his experience writing the screenplay for The Puppet Masters
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Most of what they said about Aladdin was stsuff we already knew - stuff like "Black Friday" and how they had 2 months to completely redo the script - which is where Elliot and Rossio were brought in.
TerryRossio also talked about how it was his first foray into writing for animation, and he tried to write it like a live-action film - lots of dialogue, less action.
With The Mind -> Terry Rossio's Thoughts On PotC:DMC(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
TerryRossio's Thoughts On PotC:DMC, (and a 2 week old production update)
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