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"textContent": "It’s been nearly a decade since Gore Verbinski’s last feature film A Cure for Wellness hit theaters, but the director best known for creating the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise hasn’t been slacking. “I’ve worked every day of those years,” the Oscar-winner behind Rango tells Filmmaker over Zoom. “We developed an animated musical. We recorded the entire soundtrack for an animated musical. We’ve developed multiple screenplays. I just find that sometimes the stories I’m most passionate about perhaps don’t satisfy the green-light committees’ process, and that’s fair. But I got to do what I do, and they do what they […]\n\nSource",
"title": "“Trying to Make a Psychotic Opera”: Gore Verbinski on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die"
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