| The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (The Pirates! Band of Misfits) |
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Poster, released July 2011 |
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| Directed by | Peter Lord Jeff Newitt (Co-director)[1] |
| Produced by | Julie Lockhart Peter Lord Carla Shelley David Sproxton |
| Written by | Gideon Defoe[1] |
| Based on | The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe |
| Starring | Hugh Grant Salma Hayek David Tennant Brian Blessed Russell Tovey |
| Music by | Theodore Shapiro[2] |
| Studio | Sony Pictures Animation Aardman Animations |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 28, 2012 (United Kingdom) March 30, 2012 (United States) |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, known internationally as The Pirates! Band of Misfits, is an upcoming 3-D stop-motion animated film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Aardman Animations and set for release on March 28, 2012, in UK, and on March 30, 2012, in US. It is being directed by Peter Lord and co-directed by Jeff Newitt. The film is based on the first two books from Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! series, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists and The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling.[3] The film will feature the voices of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Imelda Staunton and David Tennant.
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The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and his crew of swashbuckling pirates attempt to beat his rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) in the Pirate of the Year Award. On their quest they battle Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) and join forces with a young Charles Darwin.
Despite being a stop-motion film, Aardman is extensively using computer graphics to complement and enrich the film with visual elements like sea and scenery, both very challenging tasks to accomplish in a stop-motion. Peter Lord commented, "With Pirates!, I must say that the new technology has made Pirates! really liberating to make, easy to make because the fact that you can shoot a lot of green screen stuff, the fact that you can easily extend the sets with CG, the fact that you can put the sea in there and a beautiful wooden boat that, frankly, would never sail in a million years, you can take that and put it into a beautiful CG scene and believe it."[8]
On July 14, 2011, the first trailers were released; the international version on iTunes Movie Trailers,[9] and the UK version on guardian.co.uk.[10]
On August 14, 2011, Peter Lord, the director of The Pirates! tweeted that they are working on the sequel idea.[11]
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