After the success of the first one, Disney wanted two sequels and they wanted them fast. The 2nd and 3rd of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies went through a pretty difficult production. I have always regretted that I lost that opportunity. I needed Kinski for a few more shots, so I turned them down. Herzog on the local natives offering to kill Kinski for him: Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep.he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No panther claws should rip open his throat-that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me. Who cares if every grey hair on my head I call 'Kinski'?
It was worthwhile for what you see on the screen. I went up to him and said, 'You can't do this.' I told him I had a rifle and that he'd only make it as far as the first bend before he had eight bullets in his head - the ninth one would be for me. Kinski walked off, packed all his things and was absolutely serious about quitting and leaving at once - he'd already broken his contract 40 or 50 times. I'm not going to fire him - we're 17,000 feet up in the Andes, and the whole crew would quit out of solidarity.' He started shouting 'You swine!' at the camera assistant for grinning at him, demanding I fire him on the spot. As usual, Kinski didn't know his lines properly and was looking for a victim.