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Captain vane black sails1/16/2024 ![]() How will the death of Blackbeard affect things, going forward? We figured out how to do it in a way that would make it the most visually and dramatically effective, and you saw the results. I guess you could say that was fun, but not with a capital F. So, we had to figure out how you’d do it, not just for the sake of filming it, but for the sake of the logistics and story. It gave you the sense that it was something that was leveled more as a threat than as something that was ever followed through on. We were surprised, as we dove into the research, to find that there wasn’t a ton of explanations about what it actually was. Keelhauling is something that’s familiar, as a term, but maybe not in its specifics. ROBERT LEVINE: I don’t remember the number of days, but it was an elaborate sequence, so it was many, many days. How long did that scene take to shoot and what were the biggest challenges in having it turn out the way that we saw it? All of those things lined up neatly, to make this feel like it was the time to do it, and that it was going to send off this character that we’ve become really invested in, in a big, mythic way. When we combined all of those things and tried to figure out what it was going to look like, it matched up perfectly with this set piece that we’ve been aware of for awhile, but just never really felt tempted to do, in terms of the keelhaul, until it was the right moment. And we knew that the added complication was that we wanted to somehow, in the midst of it, have Teach save Rackham’s life. We knew we wanted it to be a moment in which we could see Woodes Rogers really expose the kinds of cruelty he was capable of and the darkest of his dark side. ![]() It needed to be something that added to the legend of him. We knew it needed to be a spectacle, within that world. STEINBERG: It was complicated, in the sense that there were certain things we knew his death needed to do. How did you decide the way Blackbeard would meet his end, along with the way you wanted to capture his demise? We know that most of these pirates are likely to die, in some horrible way, this season. That’s a ten out of ten on the gross scale for us. JON STEINBERG: Somebody asked if there is anything more disturbing coming down the road, and it’s a definitive no. And Episode 3 of this last season was a real tough one to watch, with that horrific death season. Collider: I’m excited to be talking to you about this season of Black Sails, but I’m also sad that it’s the final season.
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