From The Hollywood Reporter today:
"The latest move by the Walt Disney Co. and producer Jerry Bruckheimer in their quest to bring "Pirates of the Caribbean" to the big screen has been the hiring of Stuart Beattie to perform a rewrite of the Jay Wolpert script. Beattie, who recently sold the thriller script "Collateral" to DreamWorks, is a major pirate buff whose knowledge of the subject caught the studio's eye. Disney plans to start shooting in the summer."
"The latest move by the Walt Disney Co. and producer Jerry Bruckheimer in their quest to bring "Pirates of the Caribbean" to the big screen has been the hiring of Stuart Beattie to perform a rewrite of the Jay Wolpert script. Beattie, who recently sold the thriller script "Collateral" to DreamWorks, is a major pirate buff whose knowledge of the subject caught the studio's eye. Disney plans to start shooting in the summer."