pirate
I love Muppet Treasure Island. There. It’s been said. Now that it has been, this needs to be said: There should be more pirate movies. I guess Cutthroat Island ran off the pirate genre for a while, but Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush certainly brought it back. Now I am THRILLED to read that everyone’s favorite pirate; Edward Teach (Blackbeard to the unlearned), might be getting a movie based on his life. Better yet? It might be rated R. Read on or swab my poop deck:
When Variety reported back in May that DreamWorks was looking into bringing a Blackbeard movie to the big screen, there were a few intriguing possibilities thrown into the equation for Pirate movie fans everywhere. Unlike Disney’s very successful Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, the word came down the wires that this look into the life of British buccaneer Edward Teach would incorporate a more serious R-rated take into the world of piracy and less of the fantasy elements that we received out Disney.
I love pirates. They were dying of scurvy so they just mixed their rum with fruit juice. Baller. For those of you that are not in the know, when a pirate ship would run up a red flag, it would mean no quarter would be given. No prisoners would be taken. That’s why I always wear red to the Old Country Buffet. It’s everyman for himself.
Source: Mania.com
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
If they’re gonna do a story of his life it has to be rated R. Although I’m sure 85% will be made up hollywood action as there isn’t exactly a lot around on him in fact based books to go off of. You have to figure most of his encounters with other sailing vessels probably didn’t end in a happy way for the other boat so I’m sure there was much pumping up of the story by any survivors.
If they can take the realness of the battle scenes from Master and Commander and some pirateness from Pirates of the Carribean with a bit more gritty real life documentary feel to the story line then I smell a blockbuster to blow Titanic out of the water. (no pun intended)
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Yarrrr
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Y’know, this weekend is pirate weekend at the renn faire! See you sunday?!?!?
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
So there might really be a pirate movie that’s rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRR???!!!
/hack
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Rated R I would definitely see it. A good one could really attract an audience that might normally think of a pirate movie as cheesy or kiddish. Looking forward to a Rated R pirate movie with some serious sword fighting on deck, cannon balls smashing through ships and whores being dragged from cabin to cabin. ARRRRRRRRR lol
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Um, Old Country Buffet (or any buffet for that matter) and Muppet Treasure Island sounds like a nice Sunday afternoon.
Oh yea, and a good Pirate movie is always something to smash to.
Also if you keep putting up tags like “My Poopdeck”, someone might crap themselves (nice tag).
September 24th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Being a pirate myself, I’m thrilled. I thought the PoC movies were great even tho all my friends thought all the over the top sword fighting and swashbuckling was a little much.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Shiver me timbers…
I spent a bit of time living in Jacksonville, NC and there is more Blackbeard themed crap in that area than you can shake a peg leg at. My personal favorite was the historical Edward Teach miniature golf course out near Topsail Island. I guess its kind of sad when your legacy was as terrifying as Blackbeard’s was but we can still find a way to condense it into a miniature golf course.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Over the top sword fighting and swashbuckling? Is there any other kind? I have to say, Cutthroat Island…..didn’t hate it. Geena Davis in her prime, a young strapping Matthew Modine setting the screen ablaze. Just kidding, it stunk. Nooo, I loved it.
I do enjoy the occasional buccaneers tale, and hope that this Blackbeard flick is something a lot darker than your Pirates of the Caribbean fair. Really take full advantage of that “R” rating. I’m thinking, plenty of gruesome, bloody battles. Dismemberment. You know, 6-12 or so beheadings. No more than 12, that would be ostentatious. 2, 3, maybe 4 rapes….no, 2…2 is good. That’s the formula that will raise the Jolly roger in my pantaloons.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Bradley- I’m a bit of a an expert on pirates. I think this would be a great film. I also think we should make a movie about modern day somali pirates, and it will feature the savaging of one Drab T-Shirt by a pack of Filty Somali Radical Islamists.
And by “Filthy Somali Radical Islamists” of course I mean “Sven Lloyd.”
October 15th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I won’t see it unless Gerard Butler plays Blackbeard…Theres really noone else better.