we already know that Disney ended up hating the approach chosen by Johnny Depp to interpret to Jack Sparrow in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’, but the truth is that not even at first they were very convinced that he was the right actor for the role. Today we are going to remind you of what made the studio decide on the protagonist of ‘Eduardo Scissorhands’.
reach another audience
Hollywood was making somewhat more daring films at that time -it was the years of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or the sequels of ‘Matrix’-, at least in terms of giving more importance to the teenage audience to get them to go en masse. That became a necessity when Disney scrapped its initial idea of making a direct-to-video movie for good, opting instead for a big blockbuster.
Arrival aboard the producer Jerry Bruckheimer It was what helped the film to finish taking shape, betting entirely on pirate cinema, adding a supernatural element and the need to add something that would tell the public that it was not a mere adventure for the little ones in the house. , an image to which Disney cinema was inevitably associated at the time.
Own Jerry Bruckheimer made it clear that Depp’s choice was essential to deliver on his promise to make a more youthful film without ending up receiving the dreaded R rating for adults in the US, explaining it with the following words:
He is a stylish and provocative actor who counteracts the bland quality of Disney’s ‘The Country Bears’ and tells the audience that an adult and a teenager can go see this and have a good time.
In fact, at Disney there were even some doubts about the possibility that ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’ was a movie too intense for its usual audience, and they even put more than one hit on the budget. Finally, his complaints focused on Depp’s interpretation, even fearing that the film was being ruined. As we all know, this was not the case and the success of the film directed by Gore Verbinsky was absolute, while the actor came to be recognized with an Oscar nomination.