They just don’t care anymore.
[quote=“dimitreze, post:1, topic:567”]
They just don’t care anymore.
[/quote]Why should they? They own the IP.
The first movie basically took the story of the first Monkey Island game to begin with. If they had made a series of Monkey Island movies instead, they would be exactly the same, just with different names, I guess.
Yes, according to Wikipedia, the story of the first PotC movie was written by someone who had been involved in a cancelled Monkey Island film production:
fan site World of Monkey Island was contacted by an anonymous source who told them that Ted Elliot had written the script for the film
Yeah, I’m gonna need a better source than a Monkey Island fan site on this one.
That’s right. It’s only a rumor.
But, even if it’s true, they would never tell it officially.
It doesn’t matter anyway since Monkey Island was based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride + now everything belongs to Disney.
[quote=“Nor_Treblig, post:6, topic:567”]
It doesn’t matter anyway since Monkey Island was based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride
[/quote]More like inspired by. Also the jail and the dog called Walt in Monkey 2 is a homage due to that. And that’s about it. The story and all the characters were original.