‘Everybody on the Movie Needs to Open a Vein’: Inside the Making of Gore Verbinski’s Scrappy ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’

Gore Verbinski has finally returned.

Verbinski is perhaps best known for turning “Pirates of the Caribbean,” a Disney Parks attraction without a discernible storyline or standout characters, into one of the company’s most successful film franchises, with the second film, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” becoming the highest grossing movie that Disney had ever released when it came out in 2006. He’s only made four films since his last “Pirates of the Caribbean” outing – 2007’s beautiful...