Set sail for adventure on the high seas as the latest series of FRANCHISOGRAPHY begins. It’s 2003’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK OF PEARL.

In the early 2000’s, Walt Disney Pictures was in a very different place than it is today. Desperate to get into the live action blockbuster game, the House of Mouse took its biggest gamble in years on a big budget pirate movie, a genre thought to be as cursed as Aztec gold.

How did director Gore Verbenski and star Johnny Depp not only beat this curse, but turn a movie based on a slow-moving boat ride into a generation-defining phenomenon? Our intrepid hosts team up with theme park expert Kyle Crane to uncover these buried secrets and more.

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