So the idea that the Sea of Thieves is positioned as this place that the pirate’s life lives forever - that kind of narrative idea that Jack would want to be in the ‘Sea of Thieves’ and he would see it like a legend, the legend of the fountain of youth - the positioning of the two worlds made a lot of sense.”Īs Sparrow eventually becomes a crew mate for the player on their adventure, Rare went above and beyond to make sure his portrayal would seem genuine to “Pirates of the Caribbean” fans. “Jack has that awesome line that I love from the first movie around what a ship really is, is freedom. “We’re delving into the idea of the deeper meaning of pirate freedom, or what it means to be a pirate,” Chapman says. Both play with the idea of the pirate’s life being eternal. “Pirates of the Caribbean’s” main antagonist, Davy Jones, plays a similar role in the series, traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead. One, Chapman explains, started with The Ferryman, a character well known to players of the game as the captain of the Ferry of the Damned who brings dead pirates back to the Sea of Thieves. With that in mind, the team began to dive into the mythos behind “Sea of Thieves” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” and saw some very fitting connections. It needed to be something that fundamentally moved the ‘Sea of Thieves’ world forward.”
“Not a bunch of side stories, take it or leave it, sort of parallel quests. “The thing that we very quickly grasped onto was the idea that if the world of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ is going to come to ‘Sea of Thieves,’ it needed to be something fundamental in terms of how those two worlds cross over,” he says. Once the partnership was officially a go, when it came down to the nitty-gritty, Chapman says one of the greatest priorities was authenticity - not only to the world of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” but to that of “Sea of Thieves,” and the lore that’s been built around the game since its launch in 2018.
“That first meeting, Mike and I walked out and literally, when we got around the corner - we made sure we were out of eyeshot - we literally put our arms around each other and said, ‘we’re gonna do something special here,’ just from spending 45 minutes in a room with the team at Disney,” Neate recalls. The trio says it very quickly became clear how the two properties would be a natural fit, and Priore remembers that Chapman was “a walking encyclopedia” of “Pirates of the Caribbean” knowledge, coming to the table with an idea that would tie together the worlds of both IPs.
Savvy? /xGxjeFxVPhĪccording to Neate, Chapman and Priore, it’s a secret that they’ve keep under their hats since E3 2019, when Rare first brought their idea to Disney. New environments, new enemies and new adventures await. Did everyone see that? Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life launches June 22! ĭisney's Pirates of the Caribbean sails into in the ultimate pirate crossover.
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