Lokacin da Dick Cook ya sami damar shawo kan mai shirya Jerry Bruckheimer ya shiga aikin, ya ƙi rubutun saboda "fim ɗin ɗan fashin teku ne kai tsaye". Daga baya a shekara ta 2002, ya kawo Elliott da Rossio, waɗanda suka ba da shawarar yin la'anar allahntaka kamar yadda aka bayyana a cikin buɗe fim ɗin Black Pearl. A watan Mayu 2002, Bruce Gore Verbinski ya yi wahayi zuwa ga fassarar wannan rubutun game da halayen. Idan sun zaɓi su sake shi kai tsaye zuwa bidiyo, Christopher Walken ko Cary Elwes za su kasance zaɓin su na farko. An kawo Stuart Beattie don sake rubuta rubutun a watan Maris na 2002, saboda iliminsa game da fashin teku.
ko za a saki fim din a cikin gidajen wasan kwaikwayo ko kai tsaye zuwa bidiyo