Taika Waititi to star in, executive produce and direct period comedy Our Flag Means Death at HBO Max : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama

Academy Award winner Taika Waititi is booked and busy. The filmmaker is at the moment directing Thor: Love And Thunder. Amidst this, he has signed a period comedy Our Flag Means Death, set at HBO Max.

The filmmaker is not going to solely star within the undertaking, however he will even function an executive producer and direct the pilot of the collection. According to Deadline, “Our Flag Means Death is based loosely on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate. Waititi will play Blackbeard, the history’s most feared and revered pirate.”

“Our Blackbeard is a legend, a lover, a fighter, a tactical genius, a poetic soul and quite possibly insane,” author David Jenkins advised Deadline. “Only one man could play this role, and that is the great Taika Waititi. We’re thrilled beyond measure he’s decided to don the beard.”

Jenkins will even function executive producer together with Garrett Basch and Dan Halsted.

Meanwhile, Taika Waititi is at the moment taking pictures Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder. He will subsequent star in Ryan Reynolds’ upcoming function Free Guy.