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For my understanding, the book series follows Jack Aubrey, which is Russell Characters.

Russell Characters?

Russell Characters, which is Russell Crowe's character in the movie.

It's a new Australian actor, Russell Characters.

It just sounds like a creative character and like a WWF thing, but just set to default the whole

of the way down. That's what your character name in Starfield is, Russell Characters?

Yeah, exactly. Another thing I've spent way too much time on recently.

Stephen Mutterin, who is played by Paul Bettany in the movie,

because it's like called the Aubrey Mutterin series.

Mutterin series. I'm sure I'm pronouncing that perfectly.

I don't know why they decided to turn this into a big budget film.

Yeah, because I mean, I'm not saying it's bad. Of course I'm not.

There's a reason why every man above the age of 30 loves this movie.

And now that I am one of those men, I get it.

But there's so many books. There's no way they're ever going to do this.

They never even made a second movie.

Yeah, like they had originally planned on like making this into a series.

And it was really capitalizing on the kind of trend at the time of like,

because pirates of the Caribbean came out like relatively around the same time.

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