Other Titles • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) • Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Treasures of the Lost Abyss • Dead Man's Chest • Pirates of the Caribbean 2 • Rummty II • P.O.T.C 2 • Pirates 2 • P.O.T.C. 2
The combined work of Heinrichs, art director John Dexter and Carasik was inspirational to the actors as well. “I think one of the nicest compliments I ever received was from Johnny when he walked into Tia Dalma’s and told me that he didn’t really know what he was going to do in there, but there was so much great stuff to play with that he was like a kid in a candy store. You know, Johnny can take a simple little trinket from a desk and turn it into the most amazing prop.”
“The Pantano River set at Disney was also designed to match the actual location chosen in Dominica for the sequence, the Indian River,” explains construction coordinator Greg Callas. “The bloodwood trees that border this river are so extraordinary, and we had to replicate them on stage from steel and car foam and plater with silk leaves on them, which required a lot of work. We also built an above-ground tank above the stage floor, which we filled with half a million gallons of water, which actually created the right sense of humidity.”
Following the completion of the Pantano River sequence, the “Pirates” company hopscotched back to Universal Studios, where a sneak preview of the “real” Flying Dutchman could be glimpsed in an exact replica of its main deck for sequences with Orlando Bloom, Bill Nighy, Stellan Skarsgård and actors— clad in similar gray reference suits as that worn by Nighy—portraying the ship’s bizarre crew.
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