Comments on: Penelope Cruz Signs on with PotC4?

By: pirate_girl

pirate_girl — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:27:19 +0000

Penelope Cruz? really? i’m losing more and more hope in this movie as more information comes out. First there’s no Keira Knightly, now thier penelope cruz a female pirate? If they were going to have a female pirate why not get zoe saldana to come back as Anamaria? People like her… and just to be bias, i was one of the people hoping jack and elizabeth would end up together in someway, so this may play a part in me not liking penelope cruz for this part…

By: Captain Jack

Captain Jack — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:59:59 +0000

I agree- while I’ve been having some trouble wrapping my head around Penelope Cruz being a pirate, I think she might could pull it off. She and Johnny Depp will either suck together or be dynamic- your call, Disney. Please just don’t screw this one up.

By: Amazon Sam

Amazon Sam — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:09:35 +0000

Hear hear. I’ve read On Stranger Tides – and when Disney announced POTC4′s new title, I read it again. Color me unimaginative, but I just can’t wrap the head around Jack Sparrow et al in this story…at least sticking closely enough to it to be recognizable, anyway. On the OTHER hand, lots of magic and fighting and double-crossing and wicked ways, so maybe I’m just not stretching enough. I’m really looking forward to seeing how they pull this off. Penelope? Maybe she’s the damsel in distress. She can do that. Sort of.

By: Bilge

Bilge — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:24:19 +0000

Agreed on all accounts, McCool. I’ve heard tell that the movie will bear little to no resemblance to the book save the title and the Fountain of Youth. Personally, that’s my hope, as any effort to force the PotC cast into the On Stranger Tides plot seems ill-conceived at best. Jack Sparrow resembles not a single character as you said, nor does a swashbuckling female character.

PotC4 will sink or swim as a film on its own merit, but sadly I don’t envision a scenario where the book is done justice of any kind.

By: Captain McCool

Captain McCool — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:57:22 +0000

Huh… setting aside the fact that there is absolutely no character in On Stranger Tides that even remotely bears resemblance to Penelope Cruz, she could make a wicked cool she-pirate. I could see her being a perfect counterpart to Sparrow. Simultaneously making him fall madly in love with her, while also trying to kill him, etc.

And yet… there’s just no character like that in the book…
Okay, not that there’s a character like Sparrow either, but at least Barbossa bears something of a resemblance to Powers’ Blackbeard… Ugh, please don’t make a hash of this, Disney!