So with production designer John Myhre and his team, the Sunset went under construction, in which the entire top of the boat was sliced off in the creating process of redesigning the ship. ' ― John Myhre īecause the Black Pearl didn't figure physically into the story of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, it was decided that the Sunset was to be used as the base for the Queen Anne's Revenge, the infamous ship belonging to the film's villain Blackbeard. ' Since the Black Pearl doesn't figure physically into the story of On Stranger Tides, Disney wanted us to use the ship as the base for the Queen Anne's Revenge. Īt Capucine Point on Dominica, the very first scenes shot on the re-designed and re-built Black Pearl-which had sailed almost 2,000 nautical miles from the Steiner Shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Alabama-were filmed. The result was that from the waterline up you had the pirate ship, with the Sunset still in there somewhere, with engines, fuel and water tanks, a galley and bunks. By the time work was finished, something familiar, yet brand-new, had been created. To speed its construction, Heinrichs built the new Black Pearl around the old Sunset which was docked in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. How the Black Pearl was built on the Sunset.Įight months prior to the start of principal photography, production designer Rick Heinrichs was given the task of creating the new Black Pearl. For the back-to-back productions of Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, because the barge would take forever to line up, the producers felt it was in their best interest to build the Black Pearl as a seaworthy vessel. I think that Gore discovered what he liked and what he didn't like in the first film, and he wanted a much more flexible Black Pearl that could move faster than one or two knots.' ― Rick Heinrichs ĭuring the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the original Black Pearl was basically a set built from the hull up on top of a barge, which was towed into position for filming. They built the ship directly onto a barge and were limited by the dimensions of that barge. The Black Pearl in the first film was established, to some degree, by the set of circumstances that they had. ' We took the Black Pearl and gave it a little bit more of a swoop.

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