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James Ward Byrkit

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James Ward Byrkit

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About

James Ward Byrkit (also known as James Byrkit or Jim Byrkit) is an American film director, writer, and actor. He is best known for directing the science fiction thriller Coherence and co-writing the script for Rango, one of his many collaborations with Gore Verbinski. For Rango, Byrkit starred as several characters, most notably Waffles, a horned lizard. Byrkit also was the conceptual artist on the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and designed some of the most iconic sequences of the series. Byrkit also directed the short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked (2011), which serves as a prequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).

Known for

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest posterPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ChestMovie • 2006Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End posterPirates of the Caribbean: At World's EndMovie • 2007Rango posterRangoMovie • 2011Baby Driver posterBaby DriverMovie • 2017Special Unit 2 posterSpecial Unit 2Series • 2001Coherence posterCoherenceMovie • 2014Shatter Belt posterShatter BeltSeries • 2023MouseHunt posterMouseHuntMovie • 1997The Forest posterThe ForestMovie • 2016Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code: Wedlocked posterPirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code: WedlockedMovie • 2011Black posterBlackMovie • 2024