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 (1946 film) regard to Welles's subtextual purposes." In his audio commentary for the 2013 Blu-ray release of "The Stranger", Wood calls it "an undervalued film" due to the absence of the "stylistic swagger" of "Citizen Kane" and "The Magnificent Ambersons". He regards Welles's third completed film as "deceptive and much more complex stylistically and thematically" than has so far been appreciated. The debut issue (July–August 1946) of the short-lived pulp digest "Movie Mystery Magazine" presented a novelized condensation of the screenplay for "The Stranger". A half-hour adaptation of "The Stranger" aired on CBS Radio's "This Is Hollywood" on December 7, 1946. Robinson