Captain Blood remake in space!

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Warner Bros. has hired Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead, Daybreakers) to direct a new version of Captain Blood, the 1935 Errol Flynn pirate classic.

John Brownlow (Sylvia) will write the film.

As Variety reports, the original film was about a "wrongly imprisoned British doctor who escapes to become a pirate in the Caribbean."

That's as opposed to a pirate of the Caribbean.

Here's the catch, though. The Spierig brothers will set their film in… outer space.

"After WB and producer Bill Gerber dusted off the library title and had Brownlow do a faithful first draft, they sought out pitches from filmmakers," says the trade. "The Spierig siblings won the gig with a bold animatic presentation, Gerber said."

"At first, I felt like I was in that scene in The Player, where Buck Henry pitches the sequel to The Graduate," says Gerber. "But when I took a look at their animatic depiction of a pirate battle in space, it had such a distinctive visual look to it that I said, 'Great, I get it.'"