Today we have the first trailer and poster for the upcoming British/American 3-D stop-motion animated film The Pirates! Band of Misfits (aka “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists”), featuring an all-star voice cast that includes Hugh Grant, David Tennan, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Salma Hayek, Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Piven. The film is directed by Peter Lord, and Jeff Newitt and produced by Aardman Animations and Pathé for Sony Pictures Animation.
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 Pirates! Band of Misfits, 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! Band of Misfits is slated for release on March 30, 2012.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits Poster
