Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Party In Los Angeles

Besides being very active with King Tractor Press, I'm a long-time member of wordplayer. If you think you can write then I suggest that you make haste and visit the site. Not everyone gets a chance to meet the creators of a film right before they see it, but that's what we wordplayers do. In fact, many of the films we see are created/written by someone in the group.

This Saturday we had a Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest party, for the creators of Wordplay, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Two of the nicest guys you'll meet. We got to listen to Terry read the awful reviews of Pirates 2 before watching the amazing film. I particularly like the reviews that bash Pirates 1 and 2, fully displaying the reviewers spots.

Here is Terry checking out Steven Barr (co-writer of Plant Life, writer of Violet's Home, and Devil Water) and Tina Joey Anderson (co-writer of Plant Life). They are staring at the Jack monkey who is about to get sucked into the black hole created by that much talent standing in a triangle. Poor monkey. That's John Hays in the back right, one of Hollywood's mainstay hardworkers. He's worked on more films than most people have seen.

Here's Ted speaking to some adoring fans. The woman in the bottom right is Lisa, a Georgia peach who flew out just to steal some of Ted's food.

Here we have a rare photo of Ian Gibson (Event Horizon, as yet unnamed KTP project) with a monkey on his head. Miriama Myers is on his back.

I got lucky and got this poster from Terry.


It's going to hang right over my bed.

And here's William C. Martell, the writer of a slew of great films including Crash Dive, Black Thunder, Night Hunter, and many more. Plus they just remade Black Thunder with Steven Seagal called Enemy of the Unseen. Plus don't miss Bill's website SCRIPT SECRETS. Wonderful site with tons of helpful hints on writing.