Why He Should: Say what you will about Gore Verbinski, but give the man some good material and he'll work wonders. And that's to say, a "good" Gore Verbinski film is alive with innovation, visual flare, some seriously brilliant set-pieces, and detail. Take Rango, for example, which managed to appeal to both children and adults alike in equal measure, crammed in dozens of neat references to the movies it was lovingly riffing on, and practically exploded under the weight of all its excitement. But it's the original Pirates of the Caribbean flick that shows a director working at the top of his game: it hit all the right cues and transformed a lowly theme park ride into one of cinema's biggest franchises, proving that Verbinski is more than capable of taking something that already exists and making it work for the masses. Why He Shouldn't: Without a keen interest in the material at hand, Verbinski is likely to forget about the important story cues and shift focus on his trademark CGI sequences instead. He's also aligned closely to Disney, what with Pirates and the upcoming Lone Ranger movie, which places him as a more likely candidate for a Star Wars movie. Granted, too, Star Trek fans probably wouldn't be best pleased to find Verbinski, more of a "director for hire" than one of the geeks, attached to their beloved saga, because he once directed Mouse Trap. Overall Probability: 4/10