If you're a choreographer turned filmmaker and made a successful musical, a (not-so) successful drama featuring geishas and another (very potentially awesome) musical starring Daniel Day-Lewis, what do you do next to proof you're a great director? Make a shit ton of money! (It wasn't a trick question, folks.)
Rob Marshall, director of polarizing musical Chicago (ask any dudes, they hate the flick), is in talks to fill Gore Verbinski's director's chair for the fourth installment of the increasingly shitty Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
The new director would put the film on track for a 2010 start with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow. Gore Verbinski, who helmed the first three films in the series, had stepped away from the fourth installment to focus on a movie version of the video game BioShock for Universal. Though that film's momentum has stalled, Verbinski has moved on to other directing and producing projects.
We're not quite sure what to think of this news. The last Pirates flick was a disaster on multiple levels, so the fact that another one is being produced is awful in itself, but adding a musical director to a huge blockbuster sounds like the equivalent of asking Adam Shankman to direct a Godfather movie.
What do y'all think?
--Darcie Duttweiler
Rob Marshall, director of polarizing musical Chicago (ask any dudes, they hate the flick), is in talks to fill Gore Verbinski's director's chair for the fourth installment of the increasingly shitty Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
The new director would put the film on track for a 2010 start with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow. Gore Verbinski, who helmed the first three films in the series, had stepped away from the fourth installment to focus on a movie version of the video game BioShock for Universal. Though that film's momentum has stalled, Verbinski has moved on to other directing and producing projects.
We're not quite sure what to think of this news. The last Pirates flick was a disaster on multiple levels, so the fact that another one is being produced is awful in itself, but adding a musical director to a huge blockbuster sounds like the equivalent of asking Adam Shankman to direct a Godfather movie.
What do y'all think?
--Darcie Duttweiler
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