what happened with Pirates of the Caribbean?
I was brought into that project through Gore Verbinski, who I had worked with on The Mexican and Mousehunt. But it was a Jerry Bruckheimer film, which has a certain sound that has to be kept in the mix. Jerry is a very powerful producer – not just in terms of his success rate, but he’s also a very creatively involved producer. I can only speak for the dynamic in this particular film, but Jerry is not the kind of producer that hires a director, and then sends him off to make the movie. Jerry is a very big part creatively of the making of the movie, with the director. So when you walk into that situation, in a sense you have two very strong entities that have to agree on a collective vision of the film. Jerry has people that he’s worked with in the past, and a mode of working in the past, that has been very successful for him. So really what happened was that Jerry’s creative needs, and work mode, needed to be addressed as well as Gore’s. In the end, I think Jerry was much more comfortab
