Studios put up big budgets for movies they know are likely to bring them a big paycheque, so you would think that returning to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise would be a convoy of money trucks for a budget, but it appears the opposite is true.
Disney is tightning the purse strings and Pirates 4 will have to be made for less than originally planned.
LA Times has run a piece detailing the lowering of the Pirates of the Caribbean 4 budget. The deal is that new Disney chairman Rich Ross is taking things in a new direction by trying to cut down costs on those big-budget special effects extravaganza’s that Pirates producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, is known for.
So with tough economic times, even the spendthrift industries like major motion picture production is feeling the squeeze.
Either that or they saw District 9 and said “that costs how much? Why doesn’t ten times as much look ten times better??”
I am sure it won’t effect the movie THAT much.
