Monkey Island Movie?
Yes, I had heard Ron Gilbert, the game designer behind Monkey Island, once compare the Pirates of the Caribbean to the game that he had created many years before, The Secret of Monkey Island. To be sure, there are amazing similarities. Who knows!
Here are some of Ron's comments:
So, I'm looking through my neighbor's window with a pair of binoculars, trying to see the TV to figure out if they have HBO that I can steal when the latest trailer for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie [Dead Man's Chest] comes on and I'm thinking to myself, "Hey, I've seen this before... no... I've played this before... no... I've designed this before!" I'm thinking "This is the Monkey Island Movie!" Yeah, they kind of screwed up his beard, but that's LeChuck, and let's be honest, if I'd thought of the squid tentacles for a beard, I would have done that.So I rush out to my mailbox like an six-year old hopped up on Pixy Sticks with a Pop Rocks chaser figuring there must be a big fat royalty check waiting for me. No such luck. Two overdue credit card bills and a flier from some guy offering to Trim My Hedges... I tuck the flier away so I'll know where to find it later and head back to the house.
I'm not worried. Disney will do the right thing.
But, just for fun, here's a narrated clip from someone who would like to take that idea bit further.