Black Sails

Black Sails

American dramatic adventure television series
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Black Sails is an American historical action-adventure television series set on New Providence Island. It was written to be a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island, while also including depictions of several real-life historical figures and fictionalized versions of actual historical events. The series was created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine for Starz. It debuted online for free on YouTube and other various streaming platform and video-on-demand services on January 18, 2014. The debut on cable television followed a week later on January 25, 2014. Steinberg is executive producer, alongside Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, while Michael Angeli, Doris Egan, and Levine are co-executive producers. The show depicts treasure-seeking pirates in their attempt to establish a Republic of Pirates.

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United States
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English
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4
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  • Nina Heyns
  • Jonathan Brytus
  • Erik Henry
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Lukas Ettlin
Jules O'Loughlin
David Luther
Gavin Struthers
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John Coniglio
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49–65 minutes
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Platinum Dunes
Quaker Moving Pictures
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Starz Original
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January 25, 2014 (2014-01-25)
April 2, 2017 (2017-04-02)
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  • While John Silver and Captain Flint are entirely fictional, the pirates Anne Bonny, Charles Vane, Jack Rackham and Benjamin Hornigold were in fact real existing pirates.
  • The musical instrument heard on the opening credits and through much of the soundtrack is a hurdy gurdy. The hurdy gurdy is bowed stringed instrument like a violin but the bow is a rosined wooden wheel that is turned by a crank. There can be anywhere from 3 to 6 strings with some of the strings acting as drone strings. That is what makes the buzzing sound. The hurdy gurdy goes as far back as the Middle Ages.
  • While this serves as a prequel to Treasure Island, the characters of Captain Charles Vane, Jack Rackham, and Anne Bonny were actual pirates in history that operated in the Caribbean.

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