Bringing "The Most Powerful Pirate In History" To Life - “The Pirate Queen” with Lucy Liu Interview - Screen Rant

We enjoyed having a conversation with our friends at Screen Rant about all things The Pirate Queen. We discussed working with Lucy Liu, bringing Cheng Shih's story to life and the endless quest for historical accuracy.

Screen Rant: I'm curious how you first came across the real life story of this pirate queen; was sort of finding that story what came first, or did you already know you wanted to develop a game and then you came across her story and were like, "Wow, this is this is the one."

Eloise Singer: Really good question, it definitely was story first. A friend of mine told me the story, she was like, "Have you ever heard that the most powerful pirate in history was a woman in 19th century China?" And I was like, "Hm, sounds not true. No it's not, don't be silly." [Laughs] And she was like, "No, no, genuinely it is." So we started looking into it, and I was like, "Oh my god, this is extraordinary, this is such a phenomenal story." And the more we dived into it, the more we learned about how she literally paved the way for equality; she set out these laws within her fleet, the men and women had to be treated equally, and that if men acted outside the realms of monogamy, then they would literally be killed, which was so extraordinary for the time. Classic a pirate extreme of being like, "You're not going to get a slap on the wrist, we're literally gonna throw you overboard." [Laughs] Which I thought was hilarious.

Read the whole interview here.