Ray Stevenson Joins Starz’s Black Sails as Blackbeard

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Starz also released a new behind-the-scenes ‘first look’ at season three, which is currently in production in South Africa. Check it out below and catch the season two finale on Saturday, March 28th at 9 pm ET/PT, exclusively on Starz.

“Black Sails” is created by executive producers Jonathan E. Steinberg (“Jericho,’ “Human Target”) and Robert Levine (“Touch”) and is also executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Purge. “Black Sails” follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens), and his men, and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Chris Symes and Dan Shotz also serve as executive producers.

Stevenson joins “Black Sails” star Toby Stephens, Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie, Luke Arnold as the classic character, John Silver, in the years before his well-known feats, Jessica Parker Kennedy in the role of Max, a young prostitute with an eye towards advancement, Tom Hopper as the “Treasure Island” character Billy Bones, Zach McGowan as Captain Charles Vane, a rival pirate to Captain Flint, Clara Paget as the deadly Anne Bonny, and Toby Schmitz as Jack Rackham.

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