Talk:Elizabeth Swann/@comment-11648007-20130716200615/@comment-1984959-20130717091122

Don't know about the relation to Princess Leia, though I assume it to be an assumption of the first movie playing similarly to the original Star Wars...
 * Star Wars - Leia taken captive. Luke Skywalker (normal guy with Jedi heritage) seeking help from Han Solo (rogue) to save Leia, leading to a big battle at the end of the movie.
 * POTC - Elizabeth taken captive. Will Turner (normal guy with pirate heritage) seeking help from Jack Sparrow (rogue) to save Elizabeth, leading to a big battle at the end of the movie.

There are differences, mind you, but also similarities. But to answer you main question, I never heard a comparison between Elizabeth and Leia. I only recall that in the commentaries, some of the writers compared Will knocking out Jack to leave him to Barbossa would be reminiscent to if Luke chose to leave Han in the mercy of Darth Vader(of course that doesn't happen and there would be different stories, but thought I'd point it out).

As for Monkey Island, the writers had confirmed that they never used the game as a base of POTC. You can see more from this post by Terry Rossio, one of the films' writers. Here is a second post explaining why he won't play all the games.