Starz Plans to Preview Black Sails at Comic Con

Black Sails 2014 Poster
'Black Sails' Poster - Photo Credit: Black Sails © 2014 Starz Entertainment, LLC. All rights reserved.
Are you heading to sunny Southern California for the annual gathering of comic book, movie, and TV show fans/geeks known as the San Diego Comic Con? If so, Starz is offering up a special fan-only sneak peek screening of their upcoming pirates series Black Sails during the event you might want to check out. The network will be showing off the first episode on Thursday, July 18th – and promises there will be ‘special guests’ attending the screening. [More details will be released on where and when as we get closer to the actual date.]
 
The series wascreated by Jonathan Steinberg (Jericho) and Robert Levine (Touch) and is executive produced by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. The cast is led by Toby Stephens and Luke Arnold, and Starz is set to premiere the eight-episode season one in January 2014.
 
The Plot:
 
The pirate adventure Black Sails centers on the tales of Captain Flint (Stephens) and his men and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver (Arnold). Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
 
The series also stars Zach McGowan (Shameless) as rival Captain Charles Vane; Toby Schmitz as Rackham, Vane’s right hand; Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie, a determined young woman who runs the smuggling operation on New Providence; Jessica Parker Kennedy as Max, a tortured young prostitute who sees the dark side of New Providence; Clara Paget as the beautiful but cold-blooded Anne Bonny and Tom Hopper (Merlin) as Billy Bones, boatswain of Flint’s ship.
 
Source: Starz

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