On Stranger Tides his inspiration for the ambience of the series, while his true inspiration was "On Stranger Tides". In 2007, after the successful opening weekend of the third "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, "", Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook said he was interested in a fourth film. The Los Angeles Times also reported that Bruckheimer already had rights to a book that could end up as another installment, though had not confirmed what book it was. On September 11, 2009, Walt Disney Pictures announced that the fourth installment would be titled "". The announcement had fueled speculation that the film would
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