Coffin

This article is about the box for interring a corpse. You may be looking for the glass Mermaid Coffin.

Wooden coffins and caskets floating away from the Turkish prison.

"Left-Foot Louis was rather interested in this here coffin. Specifically, the man inside the coffin, once known as Francois, may he rest in peace. After today, I mean."

―Jack Sparrow

A coffin, also referred to as a casket, was a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a dead corpse, for either burial or cremation, usually made of wood.

History

At some point during the quest for the Sword of Cortés, the pirate Left-Foot Louis was interested in Francois, a man inside the coffin. The coffin was later discovered by young Captain Jack Sparrow and the crew of the Barnacle, with Sparrow himself saying of Francois, "...may he rest in peace. After today, I mean."

Nobody escaped from a Turkish prison alive, so Jack Sparrow sneaked inside a coffin to get out. The guards dropped the dead prisoners from a clifftop and the falling tide carried the caskets out to sea. Something stirred within one of the bobbing boxes. Jack popped up and borrowed a handy oar from his fellow passenger—a bony oar from a rotting hip, which lasted long enough to paddle him as far as the Black Pearl.

Behind the scenes

Coffins were first mentioned, identified as both "coffins" and "caskets", in the 2006 reference book Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide, later republished in the 2007 reprint The Complete Visual Guide, prior to making its first appearance in the junior novelization for the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's original screenplay draft of At World's End, Gibbs said to Will Turner that the Black Pearl's hull was made from coffin planks.

In Jeff Nathanson's 2013 early draft of the Dead Men Tell No Tales script Black rock island was a chain of islands around the Devil's Triangle. When Carina Smyth discovered their exact location, she named them Coffin Islands.

Appearances

• Jack Sparrow: The Pirate Chase
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization) (First appearance)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (comic)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide (First mentioned) (First identified as coffin and casket)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide

External links

• Coffin on Wikipedia