The SPARROW CUT
The Sparrow Cut is our ideal iteration of the Pirates saga. We recut, recolored and repackaged the films to highlight what we love so much about them, while shedding the excess weight slowing them down. The result is three movies:
The Curse of the Black Pearl: Already a certified classic of adventure cinema, now honed and sharpened to a razor's edge.
Dead Man's Chest: The complete Davy Jones saga, repackaged into one epic roadshow style experience that ties up the central Pirates canon.
On Stranger Tides: A shorter, breezier Jack Sparrow spinoff that provides the essential final chapter in the tale of The Captain With No Ship.
The Cuts
The Curse of the Black Pearl
We know we're walking on hallowed ground here... You'll just have to trust us when we say that we love this movie as much as the next person. In our edit, we recolored, tightened up some scenes and made some smaller cuts to keep focus on the central characters of our Pirates canon. Our aim was to create a slightly more compact and economical Black Pearl that retains the sense of adventure and pirate perfection of the theatrical cut.
Our Runtime: 2h 4m
Theatrical Runtime: 2h 23m
Dead Man's Chest
This is a much more significant overhaul of both Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, now repackaged into a single 4 hour film with an intermission. We removed storylines, tightened scenes, reworked color and grounded spectacle in the perspective of our characters. Our Dead Man's Chest follows the complete Davy Jones saga through to the culmination of the central Pirates canon.
Our Runtime: 4h
Combined Theatrical Runtime: 5h 20m
On Stranger Tides
We saw this as something of a Jack Sparrow spinoff. But while it's slightly removed from the central canon, it remains an absolutely essential final installment in the adventures of Jack Sparrow. We again made significant cuts to the film, not only shedding full scenes and reworking storylines but also dramatically altering certain characters' fates. But, as always, we aimed to stay true to our central characters.
Our Runtime: 1hr 40m
Theatrical Runtime: 2h 17m
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Recut, Refocused, Recolored
One of the main criticisms of the later Pirates movies is their tendency to get a bit bloated and convoluted: a few too many side characters, subplots and zigzagging narrative lines tended to drag down the piratey goodness elsewhere in the films. For The Sparrow Cut, we set out to rectify this concern by trimming down on excess coverage, making more grounded decisions about perspective and basically grinding the films down to the essential characters, scenes and plot points, all while maintaining that romantic pirate magic the original films were able to conjure. While in the edit, we also decided to make stylistically driven changes to the color palate, opting toward a more realistic look as opposed to the wash of green on the theatrical releases.
Yo Ho Ho & A Bottle O' Rum!
Sit back, crack into a bottle of rum and enjoy the adventures of Jack Sparrow, Joshamee Gibbs, Hector Barbosa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan. There hasn't been a better time than now (with The Sparrow Cut!) to rewatch this amazing film franchise filled with love, adventure, betrayal, the KRAKEN! and a healthy dose of swashbuckling. Wait a second, wasn't there a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean?... No, that's not right... maybe a swig o' this rum will jog my memory...