Set in new providence island, written as a prequel to robert louis stevensons novel, treasure island. It debuted online for free on youtube and other various streaming platform and video on demand services on january 18, 2014. The series is a prequel to robert louis stevensons. Black sails is an american historical adventure television series set on new providence island and written to be a prequel to robert louis stevensons novel treasure island. The official website for black sails, a starzplay original series about the golden age of piracy, featuring videos, photos, episode information, and more. Heres a genre series thats got a lot of what youd expect from starz.
From bold original series to the best movies, starz is the ultimate destination for obsessable tv. The soundtrack for black sails, a starz original series about the golden age of piracy, features gritty original music by emmy awardwinning composer bear mccreary. Thankfully, you can still buy and watch past episodes on amazon. Michael bay to produce treasure island prequel black sails. With the help of eleanor guthrie, woodes rogers transforms nassau into a fortress, as captain flint amasses a fleet of unprecedented strength, hoping to strike the final blow and reshape the world forever.
Conceptually speaking, black sails cocreated by jonathan e. Watch black sails streaming online hulu free trial. In the end, black sails proved to be truly about a story. Starz, though, knows the formula for these costumeheavy action dramas from experience with shows like spartacus and camelot.
All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Steinberg and robert levine for starz and debuted online for free on youtube and other various streaming platform and video on demand services on january 18, 2014. New providence is a lawless island, controlled by historys most notorious pirate captains. Debuting at 9 pm et, the michael bayproduced treasure island prequel pulled. Featuring new hit original series the rook, sweetbitter, power, the spanish princess, vida, outlander, wrong man, american gods, now apocalypse as well as warriors of liberty city, america to me, ash vs evil dead, black sails, survivors remorse, the. From the depths of the blackest water come the opening credits to black sails directed by karin fong and michelle dougherty.
The first airing of the first episode in the united states took place on january 25, 2014 on the station starz and was also free released on youtube, the first broadcast of the last. See more ideas about black sails, sailing and black. The show also acts as a prequel to robert louis stevensons treasure island, providing an origin story for long john silver. Steinberg and robert levine for the cable company starz. With the spartacus series continuing to anchor its original programming, starz has ordered another bloodandboobs historical epic to series. A deeper look into the history, characters, and behindthescenes production of the starz original series black sails. Stick with it through some of the long drawn out scenes in season 1 and you will be rewarded immensely. Black sails season 5 release date on starz, episodes. Its 1715 the golden age of piracy in the caribbean. Black sails is an american adventure series, developed by jonathan e. My goal was to create music that sounds improvised by an exhausted crew aboard a ship navigating choppy waters, said mccreary. Black sails characters sorted into their hogwarts houses. This story contains spoilers from sundays series finale of starzs black sails.
Starz currently has no plans for a new season, but we can never be sure. Hundreds of british soldiers lie dead in a forest the royal navy sails back to england the west indies are now a war zone, and the shores of new providence island have never been bloodier. Black sails a starz original series soundtrack itunes. As part of its deal with lionsgate, hulu has acquired subscription streaming rights to seasons of the original series start.
Starz has announced that their new black sails series will launch on saturday, january 25th, at 9pm. As the starz original series black sails prepares to sail off in its fourth and final season, the auction of props and costumes begins. Starzs black sails to end with season 4 hollywood reporter. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events.
Black sails tvma action, drama, adventure tv series 2014 a starz original series, the pirate adventure black sails, centers on the tales of captain flint and his notorious crew as they fight for fortune and survival prior to the events portrayed in the book treasure island. Starringtoby stephenscaptain flint, luke arnoldjohn silver, jessica parker kennedymax, zach mcgowancaptain charles vane, hannah neweleanor guthrie, tom hopperbilly bones, toby schmitzrackham, and. Official facebook page for black sails, a raw pirate drama only on starz. Black sails is an american dramatic adventure television series set on new providence island and a prequel to robert louis stevensons novel treasure island. And that formula is executed with particular skill in black sails, thanks to some strong performances and an exploration of the consequences of greed that could have come out of modernday wall street. Both shows revolve around marauders who take to the seas, plunder, fight, squint into the distance and drink more than their share of grog. Thanks to vip fan auctions collectors and fans will enjoy the period costumes and props used to make the hit cable series. Steinberg and robert levine seems well positioned to bring home some of the. Ok, fans of the starz series black sails are going to be disappointed that the show has been cancelled.
The black sails wiki is a community site that anyone can contribute to, discover, share, and add. As dramatic and sexy as the series is, its hard to believe that black sails could ever be called historically accurate. Sep 26, 2019 black sails an american television drama series created for starz. Starzs hit pirate drama series black sails is heading to hulu. Starz official website containing schedules, original content, movie information, on demand, starz play and extras, online video and more. Black sails, the starz series now entering its second season, is known as a prequel to robert louis stevensons characters long john silver, captain flint. Its debauchery, sex, drinking, and pirate drama is everything you could imagine life on the high seas to be like if you were reading a drama novel. A trailblazer of sorts for starz, the emmywinning 18th centuryset golden age of piracy show was the first original series to go beyond three. Even though it has been off the air for several years, many fans still talk about the show on a regular basis. Black sails is an epic historical adventure series made by starz and follows the bloody misadventures of a crew of pirates. With jessica parker kennedy, toby stephens, hannah new, zach mcgowan. Is black sails based on history or just treasure island.
The official website for black sails, a starz original series about the golden age of piracy, featuring videos, photos, episode information, and more. There was lots of high drama on the high seas for the premiere of starzs new series black sails on saturday night. Black sails season 3 premieres on starz on january 23rd. Black sails, starz pirate drama mashup of historical record and treasure island, has swashbuckled off after four seasons following its series finale on sunday the surprisingly philosophical. If you want to catch up on seasons 1 and 2, click here. Black sails marks x and hits the spot during a swashbuckling final season that maintains the series penchant for rumsoaked spectacle while gracefully delivering these. This wiki is devoted to the show black sails on starz network. The former british colony of new providence island is controlled by some of the most notorious pirates in history, including the fearsome captain flint.
Black sails has become a smash hit series on the starz network. Starz has officially cancelled black sails season 5. Black sails was an underrated but fantastic series about pirates that aired on starz for four seasons. Follows captain flint and his pirates twenty years prior to robert louis stevensons classic novel treasure island. It is a prequel series based on author robert louis stevensons work before the story of treasure island took place related.
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