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 (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