The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie

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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
Directed by	Mike Nawrocki
Produced by	Big Idea Productions, Jellyfish Labs
Written by	Phil Vischer
Starring	Mike Nawrocki Phil Vischer
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	January 11, 2008
Language	English

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie is to be the second feature length film in the VeggieTales series. It is set to release on January 11, 2008.

Big Idea, Inc, the creator of the VeggieTales series, is producing the film. IDT Entertainment (formerly DKP Productions), who is the animation house behind all VeggieTales productions since 2002, will be doing the computer animation. The script is being written by Phil Vischer, and Mike Nawrocki will direct the film. Vischer and Nawrocki were the co-creators of the VeggieTales series. Vischer will also be the executive producer under his current company Jellyfish Labs, and Big Idea's David Pitts will serve as producer. The film will feature an original soundtrack by Big Idea's Kurt Heinecke, and will be distributed by Universal Pictures.

Big Idea has estimated that it will take $15 million USD to bring Pirates to the screen.

Phil Vischer has stated in his blog that storyboarding is complete, and voice recording was to start in September 2006.

[edit] Plot

Three lazy misfits-- Elliot, Sedgewick and Georgesom (Larry the Cucumber, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape)- dream of the day when they can quit their jobs as busboys at the Pirate Times Dinner Theater and take the stage to star in the big pirate show. But with Elliot's timidity, Sedgewick's laziness and Georgesom's lack of self-confidence, it seems as if the day to prove who they really are will never come. However, when an artifact called a "HelpSeeker" arrives from the past, it sends the three back in time into a real pirate adventure, setting in motion a series of events that drags the trio back to the 17th century, where they face danger, their fears, and become unlikely heroes in a battle to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant.

[edit] Trivia

This is the first VeggieTales film to be distributed by a major Hollywood studio.
The lesson in this movie is about being a hero.
The movie takes its name from a VeggieTales Silly Song of the same name.