A new interview with Jerry Bruckheimer

In a small gold art deco building hidden in the maze of sound stages on the 20th Century Fox movie studio lot in Los Angeles, Jerry Bruckheimer is sitting quietly in the foyer.
He has plenty to think about.
The Hollywood super producer is under the gun.
In a few weeks the final chapter of his adventure trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, will open simultaneously in theatres around the globe, but the film is yet to be completed.
It's almost done.
Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski and the film's army of editors, sound mixers and special effects technicians are facing a week of sleepless nights before the final print is in the can.
The deadline is so tight he has not screened a rough cut for a test audience, a right of passage for most Hollywood films and a chance for a movie's producers, directors and studio executives to make late changes.
"Sure we're nervous," Bruckheimer, whose films, including Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor and Armageddon, have made more than $US14 billion ($A17 billion) at the global box office, said.
"I think it will open well, but who knows?"
"No audience has seen this movie because we just don't have time."
"We showed it to a group of Gore's friends who loved it and thought it was better than the first two, but they're Gore's friends."
"So, who knows what that really means?"
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