Our Flag Means Death Teaser Shows Rhys Darby as a Gentleman Pirate

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Our Flag Means Death Teaser Shows Rhys Darby as a Gentleman Pirate

HBO Max has finally revealed the first teaser for the upcoming period comedy Our Flag Means Death, which is scheduled to debut this March.

The video introduces us to Rhys Darby’s Stede Bonnet as an aristocrat who abandons the life of comfort for a life of crime and adventure as a pirate. It gives us our first look at its star-studded cast including Leslie Jones and Taika Waititi as Blackbeard.

Our Flag Means Death is loosely based on the real-life adventures of Stede Bonnet (Darby), a well-to-do gentleman farmer from a wealthy family who, after undergoing a midlife crisis, elects to leave and become the captain of Revenge, a pirate ship in the early 18th century.

The series stars Darby, Waititi, Kristian Nairn, Nathan Foad, Rory Kinnear, David Fane, Joel Fry, Guz Khan, Fred Armisen, and more.

Check out the Our Flag Means Death teaser in the player below.

The period comedy series is created, written, and executive produced by David Jenkins (People of Earth), who is also serving as showrunner. Executive producers are Waititi, Garrett Basch and Dan Halsted.

The series marks the fifth collaboration between Darby and Waititi, which began when the former starred in the cult-favorite HBO series Flight of the Conchords, on which Waititi was a writer/director, and followed by the mockumentary film What We Do in the Shadows. Their next project together in Searchlight Pictures’ sports comedy film Next Goal Wins, starring Michael Fassbender (Dark Phoenix) and Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man).