Black Sails

Name: Black Sails
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Hannah New, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Toby Schmitz

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Black Sails (2014-2017)

Seasons: 4, episodes: 38

Episode runtime: 60 min

Average rating: 8.1/10 177 159

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Premiere

2014-01-25

Last episode

2017-04-02

Status

Ended

Country

South Africa, United States

Network

STARZ

Production

Platinum Dunes, Film Afrika, Quaker Moving Pictures

Genre

Drama, Action & Adventure

Website

https://www.starz.com/series/blacksails

Creators

Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg

Actors

Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Hannah New, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Toby Schmitz, Tom Hopper, Zach McGowan, Clara Paget, Ray Stevenson, Mark Ryan
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Scenario

Jonathan E. Steinberg, Robert Levine

Producer

Brad Kane, Nina Heyns, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller, Robert Levine

Camera operator

Composer

Bear McCreary

Editing

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Short description

The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men 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. 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.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1 1715: The Golden Age of Piracy. New Providence Island is a lawless territory, controlled by history’s most notorious pirate captains. The most feared is Captain Flint. As the British Navy returns to redeem their land and exterminate Flint and his crew, another side of him emerges. Captain Flint…	8	2014-01-25	7.6
Season 2 Season two begins where we left off—The Walrus crew is stranded, with an army of Spanish soldiers standing between them and the precious Urca gold. And with their crimes against their brethren no longer a secret, Flint and Silver must join forces in a desperate bid for survival. Meanwhile, Elea…	10	2015-01-24	8.2
Season 3 In the wake of Charles Town, the 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. Meanwhile, with Eleanor Guthrie gone, Jack Rackham and Captain Charles Vane struggle to secure Nassau for…	10	2016-01-23	8.2
Season 4 Hundreds of British soldiers lie dead in a forest… the Royal Navy sails back to England in retreat… the West Indies are now a war zone, and the shores of New Providence Island have never been bloodier. With the help of Eleanor Guthrie, Woodes Rogers transforms Nassau into a fortress without walls…	10	2017-01-29	8

What's left behind the scenes

A detailed full-scale mockup of the ship was created specifically for the series. Approximately three hundred people worked on the construction of a single ship.
Filming for the second season began in Cape Town (South Africa) in November 2013.
This is a sort of prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-1894) novel 'Treasure Island' (1883), but Charles Vane, Jack Rackham, Edward Teach, Israel Hands, and Anne Bonny actually existed and pirated in the Caribbean Sea.
Despite the title, there are no ships in the film—pirate or otherwise—with black sails. Sea salt would have instantly turned them a dirty gray.