
Richard Coyle has joined the cast of NBC upcoming pirate series, ‘Crossbones’!
That’s right folks, it looks like according to Deadline:
Actor Richard Coyle (A Good Year) who was most recently on the hit TV series: Life Of Crime, has been picked to be the so-called bad guy to the actual bad guy, John Malkovich (Red 2) who will play the role of, ‘Blackbeard’ in the upcoming NBC TV series, ‘Crossbones’ which is set for a release on TV next year!
Crossbones is set in 1715 during a time in which Blackbeard has kind of created his own, ‘Pirate’ nation, (so to speak) in the Bahamas… During this time, ‘Coyle’ (who will be playing: Tom Lowe) is sent in to Blackbeard’s little tiny Island nation as an assassin who will start to have a harder and harder time with his mission as he begins to see Blackbeard for who he really is!