On Stranger Tides game series by LucasArts and for the fourth installment in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series, "". In 1718, French puppeteer John Chandagnac sails to Jamaica on the British ship "Vociferous Carmichael". He aims to confront his uncle Sebastian, who has apparently stolen a fortune that rightfully belonged to John's father and could have prevented his poverty-induced death. On board, he meets an Englishwoman named Elizabeth Hurwood, who complains that her erudite father Benjamin has abandoned his natural philosophy work and begun studying dark magic with her lecherous physician Leo Friend. The pirate sloop "Jenny" menaces the "Carmichael", neutralizing
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides explained Cook was one of the few who accepted his portrayal of Jack Sparrow: "When things went a little sideways on the and others at the studio were less than enthusiastic about my interpretation of the character, Dick was there from the first moment. He trusted me". During production of "" and "At World's End", writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio discovered Tim Powers' 1987 novel "On Stranger Tides", which they considered a good foundation on which to base "a new chapter" in the "Pirates" series. Disney bought the rights to the novel in April 2007. Rossio stated that he