Jack Sparrow sails again. Freed from the company Orlando Bloom and Knightley Keyra , the quirky and irreverent pirate the big screen embarks on a new adventure, looking for the fountain of youth, this time from the hand of English actress Penelope Cruz . We know that in Hollywood not in favor of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs ahead of time, so even before the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), series creator arose as to continue the adventures of Captain Sparrow. It was then that the writers of the trilogy, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio , discovered an old novel by Tim Powers entitled In strange tides (1987), and set a similar theme - more or less - at the same time as the movies. More specifically, in 1718 when Blackbeard, one of the last pirates who fought the reign of King George, terrorized the Caribbean coast. Navigating
against their will so bad company is John Chandagnac, bookkeeper and puppeteer. Nobody would take it for a good candidate to pirate or dark machinations of sorcery. But a drunken pirate Captain Jack Shandy renamed and can become one of the most important ...
After reading the novel producers rushed to buy the rights to it before even finished filming the third part of the series, hence the open end and the references to Jack Sparrow set out in search of the source eternal youth, on a trip in which he and his new crew will face mermaids, zombies and Blackbeard himself, the pirate who fear the pirates. As we see, the novel keeps many parallels with the films (even in the name of the protagonist) and although it can be assumed that the adaptation is very free, it is very difficult to make a bad script from a material as good as this.
A title personal On Stranger Tides is one of my favorite books and possibly the best
Tim Powers, which are big words is the author of The Anubis Gates or strength of his gaze . But I love the adventurous spirit that permeates every page and the author's ability to interpret the key fantastic story, recreating the past as it never was, but we would have liked. The result of that passion was the article "Tim Powers: On Stranger Tides Sailor" I wrote in 2005 yearned for Solaris magazine, the Factory of Ideas, at the time that Alberto García-Teresa was editor of it. Alberto was the dream of every writer: a professional who respected your work while good ideas which enriched the final result. I learned a lot and thanks to him, and while my mistakes and shortcomings are mine and mine only, I like to think of something good in the work of Alejandro Caveda is to his credit (and some other people that also appoint in due course). So I want to spend the next entry of the souks where you do an update of that article which, to this day, remains my favorite among all I have written. So goes for you, Alberto , and also by tod @ s you: for being there and support me along the way all these years ... OVERVIEW:
Title: On Stranger Tides
Author: Tim Powers Ed
Date Original: 1987.
has been published in Spain on several occasions, the first one by the publisher in its collection Martínez Roca Great Fantasy (1990) and more recently by the editorial Gigamesh.
Pirates of the Caribbean 4: The strange tides opens on May 20 in Spain.
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