Quote:The Kraken is inspired by a thousand years of seagoing mythology, with, perhaps, a tip of the hat to

the famed giant squid in Walt Disney Pictures' own 1954 classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." The

word "Kraken" was first heard in 12th-century Norwegian legends, referring to a creature the size of an

island, and usually depicted as a giant squid. In these legends the Kraken's many arms or tentacles could

reach to the top of a ship's mainmast and could without any great effort capsize a full-rig vessel. So great

was the creature's fame that it was even immortalized in British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The

Kraken," scribed in 1830. In the 20th century, stamp collectors could find the Kraken's image on postages

from such diverse countries as Canada and even the Commonwealth of Dominica, one of the DEAD

MAN'S CHEST host countries.



For the Kraken attacks on both the Edinburgh Trader and Black Pearl, stunt coordinator George Marshall Ruge and his team of stuntplayers and riggers had to create multiple ratchets which simulated people getting whacked or pulled into the air by the monster's tentacles. "The reality of doing the stunt rigging on these ships is that there's a mast here, or ropes hanging down there, or grates in the middle of the deck. So we built an overhead system on both of the ships that ran their full lengths in between the yardarms, with travelers on the cables which allowed us to move pick point virtually anywhere in between the masts. We were on water, so everything was moving, but the multilayered system gave us the ability to move things around pretty freely."



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The Kraken is masterfully brought to life in DEAD MAN'S CHEST by a phalanx of visual effects

artists at Industrial Light & Magic, the live-action elements meticulously calibrated with the visual effects

plans. "The Kraken sequences were extensively pre-visualized," notes visual effects supervisor John

Knoll, "and we were literally shooting specific pieces to conform to that animatic blueprint. The Kraken

scenes are technically very complex, because there's a lot of interaction with water and we see shots

looking down the whole of the ship, with a dozen tentacles swarming around, picking characters off the

deck. Putting the composites together are very difficult…every shot takes months of effort."

Quote:PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST



Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reunite in Walt Disney Pictures', in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Films, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, an all new epic tale chronicling the further mis-adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.



Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, Captain Jack sets sail on an all new adventure – filled with more intrigue, more spectacular special effects and more comedy – in July 2006.



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