To help conceptualize the original Disneyland ride as a sprawling film of curses and cutlasses, wenches and wit, director Gore Verbinski hired Jim Byrkit as a consultant in the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

You're a sick man and I love you.' ―Jim Byrkit

I'm still amazed that the ridiculous ideas we would come up with to make each other laugh actually ended up in the movie, shot for shot as we imagined them.