Taika Waititi is set to become the legendary pirate Blackbeard in the upcoming HBO Max comedy series Our Flag Means Death.
As reported by Variety, Waititi will be reunited with Rhys Darby – the series lead who is set to play Stede Bonnet. Darby starred in HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and the What We Do in the Shadows film, while Waititi was the writer and director on the series and the star, co-writer, co-director, and producer on the film.
