The perils of being a gentleman pirate are on full display in the first trailer for the new comedy series “Our Flag Means Death”.
Taika Waititi reunites with his “What We Do In The Shadows” co-star Rhys Darby to tell the somewhat true story of Stede Bonnet, an 18th-century gentleman and wannabe pirate.
Trading in a charmed life as a gentleman, father, and husband to become a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede finds himself captain of the pirate ship, Revenge.
With the pirate life not quite what he expected and facing down a potentially mutinous crew, Stede has a fateful run-in with the notorious Captain Blackbeard (Waititi) who guides him in the art of piracy, with hilarious results.
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