Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (soundtrack) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (soundtrack) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2011 . Hans Zimmer, who produced Klaus Badelt's score for "" and composed the music for "" and "", returned to score the fourth installment of the "Pirates" franchise. Collaborators included Rodrigo y Gabriela, which are listed as featured artists, and composers Eric Whitacre, and Geoff Zanelli. Zimmer said that his music for the series is "making orchestras play rock 'n' roll" as he felt that "pirates were the rock 'n' rollers of many many years
Pirates of the Caribbean (film series) Disney Pictures logo. Rossio and Elliot discovered the novel "On Stranger Tides" during production of "Dead Man's Chest" and "At World's End" and decided to use it as the basis for a fourth film. As Gore Verbinski was unavailable, Bruckheimer invited Rob Marshall to direct the film. Elliott and Rossio decided to do a stand-alone film, with a story that would support new characters, and incorporate elements from the novel, such as Blackbeard, the Fountain of Youth and mermaids—the latter two having been already alluded to in the previous films. Depp, Rush, Greg Ellis and Kevin McNally returned to their