Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi has been cast as Blackbeard in the HBO Max pirate cꦆomedy series Our Flagꦺ Means Death, reports .

We previously heard that Waititi and Flight of the Conchords ac🌼tor Rhys Darby were joining up 💦for Our Flag Means Death, but this is the first we've heard of Waititi starring as Blackbeard opposite Darby's lead role. Waitꦕiti is also an executive producer on the HBO Max series and will direct the pilot episode.

"Our Blackbeard is a legend, a lover, a fighter, a taꦰct🎃ical genius, a poetic soul, and quite possibly insane," said series creator David Jenkins. "Only one man could play this role, and that is the great Taika Waititi. We're thrilled beyond measure he's decided to don the beard."

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:News of the series first broke in January, but Variety rep✅orts that Our Flag Means Death was ordered straight to series in September of 2020. For the uninitiated, that means it's been greenlit for an entire season rather than a pilot episode alone. 

Plot details are still a tad thin, but the general premise is loosely based on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (Darby), a moderately wealthy aristocrat who abandons his life of privilege to become a pirate 🐓after suffering a midlife crisis. Blackbeard, of course, is a notorious English pirate previously portrayed by Ian McShane in 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

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