Project Detail

Pirates!

Synopsis

Pirates! is a swashbuckling adventure with a rich vein of surreal and broad comedy, based upon The Pirates! (in an Adventure with Scientists), from the bestselling series of books by Gideon Defoe. The movie will be created with the same beautiful hand-crafted technique that Aardman brought to the feature films Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Chicken Run. The story follows the fortunes of a cheerful but hapless pirate band as they cross the seven seas in search of the thing pirates love best: adventure. And what greater adventure can there be than battling Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz in an attempt to win the coveted Pirate of the Year trophy? From the Caribbean, their journey takes them to Victorian London, where they encounter Charles Darwin, an articulate ‘man-panzee’ named Mister Bobo, and an all-powerful enemy determined to wipe out pirates forever. The pirates find that their quest is a victory for good-natured optimism over the boring forces of common sense.

Details

Year: 2011
Type of project: Features
Director: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
Producer: Julie Lockhart
Screenwriter: Gideon Defoe
Principal cast: Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven

Genre

Children’s

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Aardman Animation

+44 (0)1179 848485

Sales Company

Sony Pictures

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