![]() ![]() I highly recommend you pick one up–try On Stranger Tides (which, incidentally, was long out-of-print when I went looking for it), Declare or The Anubis Gates. Still, it’s great that Powers is getting some notice. The Complete Twelve Hours of the Night (1986): A joke pamphlet by Blaylock and Powers as William Ashbless, published by Cheap Street Press features in The Anubis Gates A Short Poem by William Ashbless (1987): A joke chapbook written by Phil Garland, with permission of Blaylock and Powers as Ashbless. ![]() Duthie Casting By April Webster Production Design by Holger Gross Art Direction by Set Decoration by Costume Design by Joseph A. If I remember the story correctly, On Stranger Tides also offers a perfect chance to replace Orlando Bloom’s character with another straight man–preferably one who can be more evidently the straight man and not the ostensible hero (Norrington notwithstanding, Jake), but I suspect his character will simply be replaced by Jack Sparrow. Directed by Roland Emmerich Writing Credits ( WGA) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by David Arnold Cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub Film Editing by Derek Brechin Michael J. Lovecraft fan, I recommend Declare–which would also make a great movie). It’s a great novel, like most of Powers’ work (if you’re an H.P. I find this really interesting, because right after I saw the first Pirates movie I went looking for some ghostly pirate fiction to quench my newfound thirst for ghostly pirate fiction, and the only thing I found (somewhat to my surprise) was Powers’ book. ![]() Author Tim Powers has confirmed that Disney optioned his novel On Stranger Tides and is planning to use elements from it for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. ![]()
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