Before landing the lead role in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, star Matt Ryan actually thought he was auditioning for a pirate TV show
In a not-so-alternate alternate timeline, actor Matt Ryan may well have ended up playing a growling, sweaty pirate on Black Sails, the improbably stellar 2014 TV series prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island. He would've been a good fit for it. But in this reality, he instead ended up playing the lead role of a pirate in 2013's Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, his first and so far only videogame credit... Read more.
In a not-so-alternate alternate timeline, actor Matt Ryan may well have ended up playing a growling, sweaty pirate on Black Sails, the improbably stellar 2014 TV series prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island. He would've been a good fit for it. But in this reality, he instead ended up playing the lead role of a pirate in 2013's Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, his first and so far only videogame credit... Read more.
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