Pirates of the Caribbean Sued for Pirating

Royce Mathew claims that the producers of 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest used his project called Supernatural Pirate Movie as a blueprint for their successful films.

In his synopsis, Mathew has a captain traveling the seas on his ship called the Black Pearl, the same name as the one used in the Disney films.  The writer adds that his story also had characters named Will Turner and Elizabeth.  In the Disney films, the same characters are played by Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley.

According to Mathew, he has already copyrighted his story in the United States.  He is suing the Walt Disney Company, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Video and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.