"Black Sails," the prequel TV series to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island," will have its season 3 premiere on Jan. 23, according to Starz Network.
Season 4 will ensue in 2017 after the production wraps up its third season, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement (via TV Series Finale).
"Black Sails" season 3 picks up the events in the previous season, which opens after the destruction of Charles Town. When Captain Flint's campaign of terror transforms into madness, it is in John Silver's hands to locate the newly transformed monster.
Eleanor Guthrie is now gone, so Jack Rackham and Captain Charles Vane attempt to secure Nassau for the ages.
Production for Season 4 will commence on the set located in Cape Town, South Africa.
"Black Sails" is Starz Network's official flagship series after the network picked up the fourth season. Divided into ten episodes, the show is produced by action director Michael Bay and is created by Jonathan Steinberg and Robert Levine.
All the three seasons have been approved and wrapped up completely months before the previous installment had debuted. Black Sails is the first Starz original series to go beyond three seasons.
"Black Sails" depicts Captain Flint (played by Toby Stephens) as the most terror pirate of that age. The series takes place twenty years prior to the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island."
The much-awaited "Black Sails" season 3 features one of the famous pirates in history, Blackbeard, played by "Rome" actor Ray Stevenson.
The first two seasons of "Black Sails" garnered 4.5 million multi-platform viewers per episode, according to Michael Bay. The series is distributed worldwide in over 175 countries and territories.
It won two Emmy Awards for special and visual effects and sound editing in 2014.
Bay serves as an executive producer for "Black Sails" along with his partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
