Historical accounts differ as to whether Blackbeard was “totally awesome” or “sorta faggy”

Some new details about Blackbeard have hit the web.  It will be based on the life of Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, a former British Naval captain who becomes a privateer (basically a captain licensed by a government to pirate other nation’s ships), who later becomes a full-on pirate, feared by all until he was captured, killed, and beheaded off of North Carolina by Lt. Robert Maynard in 1718.  Mania reports that Paul Greengrass (United 93, Bourne Ultimatum) is the lead candidate to direct. They offer some plot details:

Edward Teach is in the employ of Britain’s royal navy and fought for the queen in the War of Spanish Succession.  During that time he had a protege who served with him as his first mate.  When Britain withdrew from the war in the early 1700′s, many men of the royal navy were disavowed.  Teach, feeling betrayed and without a country to call his own, turned to piracy.  With many of his disavowed sea fairing comrades, he took a ship and using his honed skills and intimate knowledge of the navy’s shipping routes and pots, began exacting his revenge.

Becoming an increasing threat, the British navy directed Teach’s old protege, now a captain, to hunt down Blackbeard and put an end to his tyranny.  For the most part the story will be based on some truth but the protégé subplot is completely made up and, if successful, will be used again [I have no idea what "used again" means].

Sounds fairly paint by numbers, but as long as it has rum, cannons, rape, and swordfighting, I won’t be too upset. But if they make another pirate movie full of goddamned dancing skeletons, talking monkeys, and Orlando Bloom, I swear to God I’m going to rape Jerry Bruckheimer myself.  Okay, that wouldn’t make much sense.  Probably I’ll just get real mad and kick the coffee table and hop around my apartment on one foot. But I’m telling you, you would not want to be that coffee table.