Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides film provided him a long-awaited opportunity to work with Depp, and that his directing was helped by his experience as a choreographer—"the action sequences felt like big production numbers." On September 11, 2009, at Disney's D23 convention during a Disney event, Cook and Johnny Depp, in full Captain Jack Sparrow costume, announced that a fourth "Pirates" film was in development. The title was announced as "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides". Marshall visited the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland for inspiration, eventually paying homage with a skeleton holding a magnifying glass in Ponce de León's ship. An
The Stranger (1973 film) The Stranger (1973 film) The Stranger is a television movie made in 1973 as a pilot for a new television series, but was never picked up by a network. It was directed by Lee H. Katzin. Film Ventures International, an independent movie production and distribution company rereleased "The Stranger" on VHS under the title Stranded in Space. As with other films rereleased under the FVI banner, "The Stranger"'s new opening credits featured footage from an entirely unrelated film, in this case the 1983 low budget science fiction film "Prisoners of the Lost Universe". While on a space mission, NASA astronaut