Trivia / The Brotherhood of the Black Flag

• What Could Have Been: Numerous scenes were cut from the final draft, including:
  • In one of the early drafts, Frederick Cavendish and Michael McNamara originally had one final duel with each other, which Cavendish won as a reminder to McNamara that there was always someone better with a sword.
  • James "Young Jim" Knowles told his backstory to McNamara during the voyage to Ciudad d'Esperanza - his alcoholic father murdered Jim's brother, and he killed his father in turn. He then ran away and joined the navy until the Keighley was captured by Reynard. It was cut for pacing reasons.
  • During the raid on Catalina's mansion in Liguanea, two royal marines were supposed to accompany our heroes, only to get killed off during the fight. Cohen felt this was unnecessary and made the scene too cluttered, so they were taken out. One of the marines was to have been named Cornwell, after Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe series.
  • Odalis Cortez was supposed to have been the pirate Sabatini flogged to death as a warning to the rest of the crew. Cohen changed it to a random crew member to avoid the Vasquez Always Dies trope and so there would be more diversity among the heroes.
  • The Adetoro originally didn't have a name, which would have been a running joke throughout the epilogue.