The pirate drama Black Sails will air season three in 2016 and today Starz has released the season three trailer along with the first official poster for the upcoming season. Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, Black Sails is executive produced by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Chris Symes, and Dan Shotz.
The cast is led by Toby Stephens and includes Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Tom Hopper, and Zach McGowan. Ray Stevenson will be introduced as Blackbeard in season three.
Black Sails has been averaging 4.5 million viewers over its first two seasons. Filming on season four is set for this fall in South Africa.
The Plot:
The ten-episode third season of the authentic high seas drama, returning in 2016, follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens), and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island.
In the wake of the burning of Charles Town, all the New World lives in fear of Captain Flint. But when his campaign of terror crosses over into madness, it falls to John Silver to locate the man within the monster before it’s too late. Meanwhile, with Eleanor Guthrie in prison, Jack Rackham oversees a new Nassau, hoping to secure his legacy as a king among thieves. All will be tested when a new threat arrives, one the pirates could never have anticipated. It knows them. It understands them. And in the blink of an eye, it will turn them against each other.
