Check out a new poster and fantastic UK trailer for the upcoming British/American 3-D stop-motion animated film “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”
“The Pirates! Band of Misfits” is based in part on Gideon Defoe‘s book “The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists.” The voice cast includes Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, Ashley Jensen, Russell Tovey, and Hugh Grant as the Pirate Captain (Grant's first animated movie!)
Here's the official synopsis for The Pirates! Band of Misfits:
In The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as 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 Black 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 movie is directed by Peter Lord, and Jeff Newitt and produced by Aardman Animations and Pathé for Sony Pictures Animation.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits comes to theaters March 30th, 2012, and judging by this trailer, this is simply going to be further proof that Hugh Grant — and now Hugh Grant's voice — can really make me watch anything. [source: HeyUGuys]
The Pirates! Band of Misfits Poster
