James Ward Byrkit

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 cowriting 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