Neil Marshall To Direct Starz’s ‘Black Sails’

COMMENTS (10)

• Wow. Considering he directed the best episode of Game of Thrones with little to no prep, this just got a huge boost.

  Comment by killertv — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 5:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Marshall recently made his TV debut directing the Blackwater episode of HBO’s fantasy series Game Of Thrones, which received a lot of praise for its depiction of the Battle of the Blackwater, described as one of the best battle sequences ever done on television.”

  I love GoT, both the book series and the TV series, but calling their depiction of the Battle of the Blackwater “one of the best battle sequences ever done on television” is a stretch.

  Marshall is a great director, though, cannot wait to see what he does with this project. Black Sails sounds potentially cool.

  Gotta call BS on that description, though. The Got team was clearly working (intelligently) with a limited budget for a grand and epic battle scene, which meant there were a lot of actors with weapons standing next to a stone wall for most of it.

  Comment by WTF? — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 5:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This sounds great! His episode of Game of Thrones was possibly the best hour of television I have ever witnessed.

  Comment by Nerd — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 6:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• When your only original show currently on air is tanking, why not put out two stories in the day to redirect the Starz story? I’m not the “Boss,” but that’s what I’d do – and no one would be the wiser.

  Comment by DocCrane — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 7:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• why would anybody want to do a show on starz? nobody watches that network. its where great shows go to die!

  Comment by Mark A — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 8:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Which is exactly what you likely said years ago about an HBO wannabe called Showtime, and more recently, AMC

    Comment by Promo Guy — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 9:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Gonna’ be dope.

  Comment by Billy Battle — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 8:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I give Starz credit for their attempts to create original programming, but other than Spartacus, I haven’t felt like watching any of their other series after seeing the pilots. The descriptions sound good, but for some reason Starz has it in their head that they can get away with poorly written plots and characters as long as they have gratuitous sex and violence as much as possible. They need to ask themselves “If I remove all the sexy, violent scenes, am I left with a compelling story?”

  Comment by Sareeta — Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 4:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• I heard it through the grapevine that the writing on this show is nothing short of brilliant, and very thoughtful. I applaud Starz and the risks they take. Very excited to see this one on TV. Loved The Descent, Neil Marshall is amazingly talented.

  Comment by Shoop — Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 9:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• Starz continues to cancel all of their original programming due to low ratings. The truth is its a lost network that nobody is watching and since the network won’t look at themselves they blame the shows by canceling them. How can the network get any continuity with their pattern of canceling EVERY ONE of their original shows after no more than two seasons?? And I hear Magic City and Boss are next to be cancelled despite them both being high quality shows. This is why Starz will never compete with HBO and SHOWTIME.

  Comment by marc k — Friday August 31, 2012 @ 12:55am PDT  Reply to this post