Game of Thrones star Kristian Nairn has landed a new role in the new HBO Max pirate comedy series Our Flag Means Death. No Time To Die's Rory Kinnear is also appearing in the series, as well as Nathan Foad, Samson Kayo, Con O'Neill, Vico Ortiz and the previously announced Thor: Love and Thunder's Taika Waititi, who is set to play the "demented pirate" Blackbeard.
The story the show will follow is loosely based on that of real-life Stede Bonnet (who will be played by Rhys Darby), an eighteenth-century pirate from Barbados who abandoned his wealth as a land-owner to become a feared pirate. "Our Blackbeard is a legend, a lover, a fighter, a tactical genius, a poetic soul, and quite possibly insane," said showrunner David Jenkins (via The.
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