I was pretty upset that Ian McShane’s series Kings was canceled last year. The modern-day retelling of the story of Saul and David was something that had never been seen on television before, which was probably why it didn’t do so well.

McShane played the role of a king as good as as he did Al Swearengen on Deadwood, and he will now have a chance to play a legendary role as Blackbeard the pirate.

Yes, this will be for another one of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movies, this one subtitled On Stranger Tides. He’s definitely got a lot of Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa fans that they have got to please. By the way, they will be in the movie too.

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