Way back before Pirates of the Caribbean movies sailed the sea, there was CAPTAIN BLOOD starring Johnny Depp of the 1930s, Erroll Flynn. And the remake is underway,.. I usually think remakes are unnecessary but something from 1935 would be considered long overdue a.k.a it’s about time!
According to Hollywood Reporter, scribe John Brownlow (Sylvia) has been hired by Warner Bros. to pen the script for this project which will be directed by Philip Noyce (Patriot Games). No stars have been cast yet but I doubt that Johnny Depp would say yes if the role is offered to him, he’s already got a lot on his plate and he won’t need another Pirate movie aside from the box office king franchise he’s already a part of.
Here’s the 1935 original Movie plot:
Adapted from the novel by Rafael Sabatini (who also penned The Sea Hawk), this rousing adventure chronicles the travails of Peter Blood (Flynn), a righteous doctor unjustly sold into slavery for treating the wounds of rebels. Sent to a Jamaican plantation where he toils under the brutal whip of Lionel Atwill and seethes with passion for his fair niece (the astonishingly beautiful Olivia de Havilland), Blood escapes from bondage with his fellow prisoners and becomes a gentleman rogue pirate of the Caribbean.
Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, Blood and his fellow slaves capture the Spaniard’s ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood. Blood’s foe, Captain Levasseur, captures the son and daughter of the Governor of Tortuga, and takes them to the Island of the Virgin Magra (off screen known as Three Arch Bay) but Blood and Levasseur leave their buccaneer mark upon the island.
* In celebration of this info, here is a scene from the 1935 swashbuckling classic CAPTAIN BLOOD
