- "A betrayer among them? Or a trap?"
- ―Greitzer to Lord Cutler Beckett
Greitzer was an officer of the East India Trading Company. He most notably serving as a lieutenant aboard Lord Cutler Beckett's flagship, the HMS Endeavour, during the conflict with the Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court.
Biography[]
Little is known of Greitzer's early life other than that he became an officer of the East India Trading Company, most notably serving as a lieutenant aboard Lord Cutler Beckett's flagship, the HMS Endeavour. Following Sao Feng's betrayal and the escape of the Empress and the Black Pearl, Lord Beckett ordered that the Endeavour pursue the Pearl, which had sailed off in in the hopes of reaching Shipwreck Cove. While pursuing the Pearl, the Endeavour happened upon a floating barrel with the body of a dead Company soldier tied atop. Greitzer assisted Lord Beckett, using a knife from his pocket, to cut a bottle from the wrist of one of the corpses.[1]
Greitzer then noticed another body in the water, a trail left by William Turner, a crewmember of the Black Pearl, for Beckett to follow. Greitzer questioned rather or not there was a betrayer among the Black Pearl's crew or if it was simply a trap set by the pirates. Lord Beckett told him that it was no more than the gambit of a skilled opponent and ordered Greitzer to adjust the Endeavour's course, hoping to catch up to the Black Pearl before they ran out of bodies.[1]
He was aboard the Endeavour during the battle of Calypso's maelstrom. When they prepared for the final stand to destroy the Black Pearl along the Pirate Armada of the Brethren Court, the Flying Dutchman emerged from the waters, but Davy Jones was already gone and Will Turner was the new captain of the ship. Following the captains' orders, both the Pearl and the Dutchman started to fire against the Endeavour, so Greitzer, along much of the Endeavour's crew, jumped overboard into the sea after Lieutenant Theodore Groves gave the order to abandon ship when he saw that Beckett couldn't say anything.[1] His further fate is unknown.
Behind the scenes[]
- Greitzer first appeared in the junior novelization for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.[2][1] Despite having a central role in the one scene they're in and having several speaking lines, portrayed by David Meunier, the character was uncredited in the film.[citation needed]
- In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's original screenplay for At World's End, the character was only known as "the Lieutenant" during the scene where Sir Cutler Beckett see the tower of seagulls and the bread crumb trail left by Will Turner, with Beckett ordering an Ensign to adjust course.[3] Whereas "Lieutenant Greitzer" was named and ordered to adjust course by Lord Beckett in the Calypso's Fury production draft.[4]
- Greitzer may have been named after Lindsay Greitzer, the assistant to director Gore Verbinski on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films.[citation needed]
Appearances[]
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (First identified as Greitzer)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization) (First appearance)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization)
- ↑ PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, original draft
- ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
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