Errol Flynn in the 1935 version of 'Captain Blood'

Here’s an interesting piece of news.

Warner Bros. is remaking, or perhaps the better term is “re-imagining”, the 1935 pirate classic, Captain Blood.

The original Captain Blood starred Errol Flynn as a wrongly imprisoned British doctor named Peter Blood who escapes and joins up with a French pirate and becomes a pirate in the Caribbean.

The new Captain Blood will remain faithful to the original story with one exception – the whole thing takes place in space.

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