James Ward Byrkit (also known as Jim Byrkit and James Byrkit) is an American film director and writer. He is best known for directing the science fiction thriller Coherence and co-writing the script for Rango.[1] 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) a prequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).