Can you believe it’s only four months until Talk Like a Pirate Day? Time sure flies when you’re not talking like a pirate. Soon you’ll have another opportunity to brush up on your doubloons and pieces of eight and whatnot. According to Variety, Dreamworks is going forward with a new pirate movie – not a fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, but a film based on another legend of the seas. For your edification and enjoyment, I’ve run the announcement through the official English-to-Pirate translator:

“DreamWorks be brin'in' a project on t' life o' legendary pirate Blackbeard t' t' big screen. David Franzoni, who wrote Amistad and Gladiator for t' studio, will pen Blackbeard, which delves into t' life o' British buccaneer Edward Teach. Barry Josephson (Enchanted) be producin' alongside motivational speaker and former Philadelphia 76ers prexy/co-owner Pat Croce, who wrote Pirate Soul, a book that chronicled t' golden era o' piracy, which spanned 1690-1730…Croce, who owns a pirate museum in Key West, Fla., be collaboratin' closely with Franzoni on t' screenplay.”

Okay, that wasn’t anywhere near as fun as I thought it would be. But then, neither are pirate movies.