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Jerry Bruckheimer talks about Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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 In essence, producer Jerry Bruckheimer can sum up his job quite simply. “It's all about entertaining people,” he says. And with the Pirates of the Caribbean films, he's certainly delivered entertainment. And some.Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, was the biggest box office hit of 2006 with one of the most nail biting cliff hanging endings of recent times - leaving the lovable rogue Captain Jack Sparrow in perilous danger in the clutches of a ferocious sea monster in a nether world at the bottom of the ocean.
Now we are just weeks away from the worldwide release Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third part of the trilogy, and the answers to Capt Jack's fate. “It's the quest to bring Jack Sparrow back,” says Bruckheimer summing up the third instalment in a nutshell.
But as always with Pirates, there will be plenty of laughs, thrills, extraordinary spectacle, wondrous special effects and exotic locations to enjoy as Capt Jack - played by Johnny Depp - and the rest of the cast, including Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom as star crossed lovers Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner, are joined by some old favourites.
Geoffrey Rush, who starred in the first film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, returns as the villainous Barbossa and Bill Nighy is once again unrecognisable as the underworld spook Davy Jones. And some exotic new characters, including Chow Yun-Fat as the pirate Captain Sao Feng and a cameo from Keith Richards as Captain Grant Sparrow, join the cast.
“It went fantastically well,” says Bruckheimer of the Rolling Stone guitarist's stint on set. “Keith really enjoyed it, Johnny loved it and so did everybody working with Keith. Our director had a great time too.”
After taking time off to successfully release Pirates 2 last summer, Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski reunited cast and crew to finish filming At World's End.
“It was like visiting old friends again, like going back to camp,” says Bruckheimer. “You create all of these relationships with your actors and your crew and you take a small hiatus from them and you come back and it's a lot of fun to be back with the people you had such a good time with making the first two movies.”
Much of the third instalment had already been filmed, back-to-back, with Pirates 2, before the hiatus, but the team reunited to film in studios and locations in and around Los Angeles. “It was well over 200 days so it was a long shoot,” says the producer.
Bruckheimer is one of the most successful producers in Hollywood. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he started his career producing television commercials before moving on to films with his partner, the late Don Simpson.
With a glittering career spanning more than three decades of Hollywood hits - including Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide, Con Air, Armageddon and Gone In 60 Seconds - he clearly has a special place in his creative heart for the Pirates films.
“Well, they are all your kids, but Pirates was an excellent student, let's put it that way,” he laughs
At World's End will complete the trilogy of Pirates movies but that's not to say that it will be the last in this hugely popular series.
“We've optioned some material, we've optioned a book and we're looking at it,” he reveals. “We're in talks with the same writers to come back and work on a fourth one so that's an on going thing.”
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