OSAKA, JAPAN - JULY 16: Michael Bay during the “Transformers: Dark of the Moon†stage greeting at Osaka Station City Cinema on July 16, 2011 in Osaka, Japan. The film will open on July 29 in Japan. (Photo by Koki Nagahama/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
Photo: Koki Nagahama/2011 Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
Starz has given a direct-to-series order to a new pirate drama from executive producer Michael Bay, the network announced today. The show is a Treasure Island prequel, currently titled Black Sail, and is set twenty years before the book. The series will premiere in 2014 and follows a young John Silver when he joins the ranks of Captain Flint’s rollicking band of pirates as they head to a pirate enclave, a “debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality,†according to Starz. In other words: Breasts ahoy!