Where to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Trivia & production notes

• After the first film's success, Disney had the cast and crew sign up for two sequels shot back-to-back to maximize efficiency with the same team.
• The writers retroactively conceived The Curse of the Black Pearl as the first installment of a trilogy rather than having sequels be standalone stories like Indiana Jones or Bond films.
• The Black Pearl used in filming was a seaworthy ship built over the hull of the Sunset, a vessel that previously serviced oil derricks in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Disney executives threatened to cancel the film in January 2005 due to rising costs and an unfinished script, but ultimately decided to proceed.
• The scene of Cutler Beckett arriving on shore seated on a horse in a boat was originally planned for The Mask of Zorro but deemed too expensive and cut from that film.
• Naomie Harris filmed all her scenes on weekends while simultaneously working on Miami Vice.
• Johnny Depp's stunt double Tony Angelotti suffered a severe injury when he nicked his femoral artery during a stunt in July 2005, requiring blood transfusions and multiple surgeries that kept him in recovery for a year.
• Davy Jones and his crew were originally written as ghosts but director Gore Verbinski redesigned them as physical creatures with varying degrees of sea creature mutations based on their seniority.
• Bill Nighy wore a motion capture tracksuit to portray Davy Jones, allowing animators to avoid reshooting without him, though his eyes and mouth were filmed separately and ultimately not used in the final CGI character.
• The final shot filmed was a raven pecking on Jack Sparrow's coffin, shot during a two-week sequence of night scenes filmed from sunset to sunrise in February 2006.

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