I got to skip out on filming a few weeks of lost to go to Maui and Molokai to film the Hawaii portion of this movie. It was hard!!! I was loading film on this one. Not easy at all. Being a reduced unit may be great for the budget. But not great for conditions. In order to preserve the pristine beaches we were filming on, we had to hand carry all the cameras on our shoulders through the shore break. The rest of the gear was air dropped via helicopter. No wonder it's the most expensive movie ever made! Below is a summary of the flick.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 English fantasy adventure film and the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. The plot follows Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish piracy forever. Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
The film was released in English-speaking countries on May 25, 2007 after Disney decided to move the release date a day earlier than originally planned. Critical reviews were mixed, but At World's End was a box office hit, becoming the most successful film of 2007, with over $960 million worldwide.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Makeup and the Academy Award for Visual Effects, which it lost to La Vie en Rose and The Golden Compass, respectively. A fourth installment, On Stranger Tides, the first to neither be directed by Verbinski nor star Bloom and Knightley, was released in cinemas on May 20, 2011.
With a production budget of $300 million, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the most expensive movie ever made to date, even after adjusting for inflation.