The International House of Mojo
It did exist, but what was it all about? And what, if any, is its connection to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? We investigate Curse of Monkey Island , the canceled Monkey Island movie. This article originally appeared on The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar in 2013, and we’re keeping it mainly as a time capsule. For more current information, Polygon published its own story in 2021.
The rumors of a canceled Monkey Island movie first popped up in 2003 when Dominic Armato, voice of Guybrush Threepwood, posted a message on our forums about it:
Best I heard is that there WAS a script in development, but no longer. There was a department somewhere in the greater Lucas empire that was tasked with developing screenplays for some of the more animated film friendly LEC properties, but the department was scrapped in the big reorganization about... what... a year ago? Of course, this is old info and the project could very well have been resurrected by now, but the rumors that there was an MI movie in development aren’t entirely untrue
The movie, we later learned, was to be animated, and a sub-group of Industrial Lights and Magic was tasked with developing it.
