It’s a pirate’s life for John Malkovich in the trailer for NBC’s Crossbones
After a long career spent unsettling audiences on the big screen, John Malkovich will take on his first regular series role in the NBC pirate drama Crossbones. The trailer promises ship-to-ship combat, British people, and a lot less violence and nudity than if the show had been made for a cable network. Still, NBC is careful to emphasize the show’s edginess by scoring the trailer with a trance-rock cover of “Born To Be Wild”—because pirates were the rock stars of their time, with the British Empire as their uptight, misunderstanding parents.