User blog:The Flying Dutchman/Pirates 5 Idea - Pirates of the Caribbean: To the Land of the Lost Abyss

Hello, mates. For those of you who do not know me, my name is The Flying Dutchman, and I'm a huge fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. I saw On Stranger Tides last night, and I was inspired to write/begin working on my own film for the series. I have a general plot, and I was wondering what you think!

Pirates of the Caribbean: To the Land of the Lost Abyss
Jack Sparrow is captured on a quest to find a legendary artifact by the British. He is put on trial, and he is given the choice to either become a privateer in the King's navy or die. Jack chooses the first option, but he misses his freedom and slowly begins to forget what it is like being a pirate. That is, until he learns that the mysterious artifact he was trying to steal before his capture has been sighted again.

Jack manages to steal back the artifact, and he begins to seek out Barbossa, the only man he knew who could tell him what the artifact was. Barbossa reveals it to be a "key" that unlocks the gates to the lost continent Atlantis. Jack is instantly intrigued after he hears all of Barbossa's stories of the treasures people have found there in history, and he begs Barbossa to embark on a voyage to Atlantis with him so that he can "feel like a real pirate again." Barbossa agrees, and he heads off with Jack.

After facing many trials and horrors, Jack finally reaches the place where Barbossa claims Atlantis had been lost to the depths. The artifact does as described in legend, and Jack and the other pirates are taken to Atlantis. Once there, the pirates find themselves immersed in beautiful women and more treasure than they could ever stow on a ship. Even the pirates' dreams are made reality simply by wishing it. Jack views this all as a great stroke of luck, but Barbossa senses something darker is the cause of all this splendor. In his mind, he knew there had to be a reason Atlantis was sent to the depths in the first place.

Jack meets the Atlantian princess, with whom he starts to fall in love. Barbossa, meanwhile, discovers the real reason no sailor ever found Atlantis, let alone returned from the voyage to do so. The crew must leave Atlantis before their souls are lost forever through Atlantis's curse, as the men are all ready starting to vanish mysteriously as the physically perfect Atlantians are revealed to be monsters, treasure is revealed to be worthless fragments of death, and dreams made real turn into living nightmares. When he tells this to Jack, Jack doesn't believe it and states jokingly that his soul has all ready been lost and he has nothing to lose and that he's perfectly happy in Atlantis. Barbossa tells Jack he his a lost cause doomed to die to the Atlantians' spell and prepares to leave the city with the few surviving members of their original crew, leaving Jack on his own.

Jack, who considers Barbossa a fool for being so paranoid about Atlantis, meets the Atlantian prince, the main antagonist of the film. The prince reveals that he wants to raise Atlantis from the depths to begin a glorious new age in which he rules over both sea and surface, and possibly even the entire universe. He reveals to Jack that what Barbossa had previously tried to tell him about Atlantis being a deadly place is true. He persuades Jack into helping him accomplish his goals, however, by promising Jack an eternal life in Atlantis with all the treasure, women, and dreams made real he can imagine. Jack agrees.

Playing double-agent, however, Jack manages to catch up to Barbossa. He reveals to him the prince's plan, which Barbossa states would have apocalyptic side-effects. Barbossa and Jack then come up with a plan to put a stop to the prince. The two pirates then make escaping Atlantis before their destruction their first priority.

Eventually, however, the prince succeeds in raising Atlantis. A war between the pirates and Atlantians breaks out, and thousands of men are killed. Jack even has a final battle with the prince, who assumes the form of a multi-headed sea serpent. Eventually, the prince is killed and Atlantis sinks back to the depths.