User blog comment:J Fan/The Curse of the Black Pearl - 10 Year Anniversary TRIVIA/@comment-1984959-20130708015211

Don't know why

Just realized this, and I don't know why I forgot this interesting trivia. 10 seems to be a very pivotal number for this anniversary in particular. As we know, this year marks 10 years since CotBP (duh :roll: ), the film's backstory goes back 10 years (when Barbossa mutinied against Jack). And of course there's the fact that Ted and Terry had an idea for a pirate movie almost 10 years prior to working on CotBP. Don't believe me, says so in the film's presskit. Pardon my uninspiring post:
 * Elliott and Rossio will tell you that timing is everything. They pitched an idea for a pirate movie almost ten years earlier after completing work on Aladdin, but there was no interest from any studio. Undeterred, the writing team refused to give up the dream, keeping their concept on a back burner, convinced that the combination of romance, adventure and mystery would one day become popular again.