ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bruckheimer Talks "Pirates 3" and "National Treasure 2"

Bruckheimer Talks "Pirates 3" and "National Treasure 2"

by Scott Weinberg | July 05, 2006

Throw a rock across a search engine and you're bound to find a bunch of new "Dead Man's Chest" interviews. ComingSoon.net had a fairly interesting one with uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and the mega-successful moviemaker dropped a few tidbits on "Pirates 3," a sequel to "National Treasure," and a few goodies we can expect on the "Pirates 2" DVD.

Excerpted from CS.net:

"CS: Why did you decide to do another one?
Bruckheimer: First of all, the first movie entertained so many people. Disney and myself, and some of the other people involved felt that we should do another one and try to entertain them again. And Johnny [Depp] wanted to continue his character. Orlando [Bloom] and Keira [Knightely] were excited about coming back, and I think the hardest part was getting everybody together at the same time period. That's why we made two movies. To get [director] Gore [Verbinski], [Ted] Elliott and [Terry] Rossio, the three lead actors - that's the hard part. Scheduling is really difficult. Then making the deal, especially when you come off a successful picture everybody deserves more money, and of course Disney always wants to make it for less. So you have a real problem.

CS: Johnny said he would keep going on with these movies. Is there a point where you just say that's enough?
Bruckheimer: As long as Terry and Ted come up with interesting plots and themes, we'll continue to make them. And Disney wants to finance them, we'd love to do it. He loves the character, we love the movies, we love working with all the creative talent that's involved. It's been a lot of fun.

CS: Gore said he hasn't thought about what's going to be on the DVD. Do you have DVD plans?
Bruckheimer: Oh yeah. There's a lot of phenomenal stuff that we filmed that is not in the movie. That dice game. There's some additional footage on that dice game that's fantastic that will be in the DVD. There's a lot of stuff like that.

CS: Does this require more to complete the effects?
Bruckheimer: They're already completed. Gore getting time to go into the editing room and kind of go through all that material and start putting it together. And some wonderful stuff on Cannibal Island with Johnny. Some very funny things, you just couldn't put everything in."

Click here for the rest of the piece, which has some solid stuff that I DIDN'T yank out.

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filmmaker45 writes:
on Jul 05 2006 09:35 AM

Good interveiw. I am very excited about Dead Mans Chest and can't wait for Friday. National Treasure 2 sounds intresting. I did enjoy the first one. I know alot of people don't like him but, I think Jerry Bruckheimer is a good producer. I liked most of his films except a few.

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ozoz writes:
on Jul 05 2006 06:41 PM

Do this guy ever rest. Just look at his film history. He is a supper producer. Just about all of his films are hits.

Title (click to view) Studio Lifetime Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters
1/13/06 Glory Road BV $42,647,449 2,397 $13,594,734 2,222
11/19/04 National Treasure BV $173,008,894 3,243 $35,142,554 3,017
7/7/04 King Arthur BV $51,882,244 3,086 $15,193,907 3,086
10/17/03 Veronica Guerin BV $1,571,504 472 $611,276 472
7/18/03 Bad Boys II Sony $138,608,444 3,202 $46,522,560 3,186
7/9/03 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl BV $305,413,918 3,416 $46,630,690 3,269
1/17/03 Kangaroo Jack WB $66,934,963 2,848 $16,580,209 2,818
6/7/02 Bad Company BV $30,160,161 2,944 $11,007,367 2,944
12/28/01 Black Hawk Down Sony $108,638,745 3,143 $179,823 4
5/25/01 Pearl Harbor BV $198,542,554 3,255 $59,078,912 3,214
9/29/00 Remember the Titans BV $115,654,751 2,803 $20,905,831 1,865
8/4/00 Coyote Ugly BV $60,786,269 2,664 $17,319,282 2,653
6/9/00 Gone in 60 Seconds BV $101,648,571 3,089 $25,336,048 3,006
11/20/98 Enemy of the State BV $111,549,836 2,517 $20,038,573 2,393
7/1/98 Armageddon BV $201,578,182 3,184 $36,089,972 3,127
6/6/97 Con Air BV $101,117,573 2,941 $24,131,738 2,824
6/7/96 The Rock BV $134,069,511 2,426 $25,069,525 2,392
8/11/95 Dangerous Minds BV $84,919,401 1,783 $14,931,503 1,348
5/12/95 Crimson Tide BV $91,387,195 2,514 $18,612,190 2,382
4/7/95 Bad Boys Sony $65,807,024 2,132 $15,523,358 2,132
3/9/94 The Ref
(Executive) BV $11,439,193 861 $3,044,097 701
6/29/90 Days of Thunder Par. $82,670,733 2,307 $15,490,445 2,307
5/20/87 Beverly Hills Cop II Par. $153,665,036 2,326 $26,348,555 2,326
5/16/86 Top Gun Par. $176,786,701 1,531 $8,193,052 1,028
12/5/84 Beverly Hills Cop Par. $234,760,478 2,006 $15,214,805 1,532
10/19/84 Thief of Hearts Par. $10,435,015 1,200 $3,091,670 1,200
4/15/83 Flashdance Par. $92,921,203 1,140 $4,076,124 1,140
7/16/82 Young Doctors in Love Fox $30,688,860 796 $4,206,265 709
4/2/82 Cat People
(Executive) Uni. $7,000,000 600 $1,617,636 600
3/27/81 Thief MGM $11,492,915 - n/a -
2/1/80 American Gigolo Par. $22,743,674 - $3,559,930 570
1980 Defiance Col. n/a - n/a -
8/5/77 March or Die Col. $1,000,000 - n/a -
8/8/75 Farewell, My Lovely Emb n/a - n/a -
Note: Titles in grey are cameo or bit parts and not counted in totals and averages.

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killermonkey822 writes:
on Jul 10 2006 10:40 PM

that's alot of movies and he's made some pretty crappy movies in the past but he's made some really good movies so i'll forgive him for the movies like pearl harbor for example anyway yeah the ending of pirates 2 kindof gives it away that there is going to be a third film and natinol treasure to looks okay i guess i don't know if they could pull something good off maybe because i did enjoy the first one and i think it should have gotten more than what the critics gave it

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