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THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS 3D Debuts Two Trailers!


“Sweet Neptune’s Briny Pants” Hugh Grant is the Pirate Captain! © Aardman Animations/Sony Pictures Animation ©2011 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Put down your lunch mateys for its a “plunderful life” in these TWO new THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS trailers.

 (Courtesy The Guardian)

Synopsis:

Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals B…lack Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they do battle with the pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a young Charles Darwin (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS 3D, Aardman’s most ambitious stop-motion film to date, will be created with the same beautiful hand-crafted technique that the company brought to the Academy Award®-winning film WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT and CHICKEN RUN.

The film is directed by Peter Lord, a founding partner of Aardman, director of CHICKEN RUN (with Nick Park), and …a two-time Academy Award® nominee for his short films at the company. The film is co-directed by Jeff Newitt. The screenplay is by Gideon Defoe, based upon his books. Production Designer is Norman Garwood. Producers are Peter Lord, David Sproxton, and Julie Lockhart. Executive Producer is Carla Shelley.

THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS 3D will be in theaters March 30, 2012.

Visit the film’s official site: http://www.thepirates-movie.com/

“Like” the film on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jointhepiratecaptain

Sony and Aardman Strike Deal for Two Films

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Sony Pictures and stop-motion masters Aardman Animations are moving ahead with the deal the two companies struck back in 2007.   ‘Arthur Christmas’ and ‘Pirates!’ will be the first two feature films the two companies produce together.

‘Pirates!’ to be directed by Aardman co-founder Peter Lord and based on the series of books by Gideon Defoe, will be a classic, stop-motion film in the tradition of ‘Wallace & Gromit’ and ‘Chicken Run.’Â   Defoe is currently working on adapting his books for the screenplay.

‘Arthur Christmas’ will be a fully CG-animated film.   It will be a story that explains exactly how Santa gets around the world in one, single night.   Sarah Smith and Barry Cook are directing from a script by Peter Baynham (‘Borat’ and ‘Bruno’).

“It’s incredibly exciting to be moving forward on these two movies,” Lord said. “The most important elements of any animated film are story and character, and we believe that in these films, we have characters to charm and stories to delight and engage.”

Source: THR