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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The Visual Guide is a reference book containing images and information relating to Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The book was published by DK Publishing on April 5, 2011.

Product description[]

Captain Jack Sparrow is back, in On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean series! This insider's guide takes readers on an unforgettable tour of the swashbuckling world of this all-new movie, with in-depth looks at characters, locations, adventures, and more.

Foreword by Jerry Bruckheimer[]

Sometimes you just can't get enough of a good thing. I'd like to think that the main reason we decided to set sail back into the world of Pirates of the Caribbean for a fourth adventure is the same that we kept hearing over and over again from audiences: we missed it! You know, it's like going to camp when you're a kid. You make all these great friends, and then everybody disappears. But now we're all back together again after a break which was just a little too long: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Keith Richards, screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, costume designer Penny Rose, composer Hans Zimmer, and more. But like any new summer camp session, there are newbies who we're so excited to have join the company, especially director Rob Marshall, actors Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Sam Claflin and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, and production designer John Myhre.

The idea was to take the Pirates of the Caribbean world a few steps beyond, with our new characters engaged in a thrilling and sometimes hilarious search for the fabled Fountain of Youth that takes them from the teeming streets of mid-18th century London to mysterious and dangerous ships and islands inhabited by zombies and mermaids. Stranger tides indeed, all shot in Disney Digital 3-D to make the excitement literally jump off the screen. Our filming began in the jungles, beaches, and oceans of Kauai and Oahu, Hawaii; magnificent environments built in Hollywood; then to a real desert island in Puerto Rico; and finally to historical landmarks and huge studios sets in England. The pages that follow in this book will give you a guided tour through this incredibly visual world that we created for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and we hope you enjoy the journey both in print, and on screen.

Introduction[]

Adventure is in the air, savvy? And where there's peril and perfidy you will always find Captain Jack Sparrow—whether he planned it that way or not. The streets of London hide countless secrets, and a fiendish scheme is being hatched to set Jack out on his strangest quest ever—in search of the Fountain of Youth. There's a meeting with, and escape from, a King, and an encounter with the most feared pirate of them all—Blackbeard. Jack will face an old rival and meet a dangerous and mysterious Spanish lady.
Tempted to come aboard? The perils will be—but there will never be a dull moment.

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Goofs[]

  • Hector Barbossa was mentioned as an admiral several times in the visual guide. However, this is considered a mistake as Barbossa was given the rank of "captain" in the film.
  • The On Stranger Tides: The Visual Guide index page says that information on Henry VIII is found on the pages about St. James's Palace. For unknown reasons, there was not mentioned at all.
  • On Blackbeard's "lesson" during Jack Sparrow's mutiny: "His dark magic is so powerful that even his ship follows his every demand, and it soon has Blackbeard's mutinous crew caught in its rigging." In the film, Blackbeard didn't use dark magic but rather the Sword of Triton, unnamed onscreen. It is also worth noting that Blackbeard's character description in On Stranger Tides said that the sword was embedded with one of three sapphires of Triton. However, Terry Rossio's screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales featured the three Pearls of Neptune.[1]
  • The Cook was said to have been forced to return to work as a zombie. According to actor Bronson Webb, the scene was never filmed as it was deemed "too scary" for a Disney film.[2]
  • While it has never been officially clarified on or offscreen, fans have debated about the accuracy of the information presented in "Naval Files" about the Queen Anne's Revenge and the HMS Providence. The Revenge was described as being a third-rate ship of the line with 70 cannons and 200 crewmen. The Providence was described as a square-rigged barque with 80 cannons and 650 crewmen. The innacurate number of guns aboard the Revenge was later repeated in the Dead Men Tell No Tales Behind the Scenes magazine.

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