Update: The trailer below is good but the UK one which came out 30 minutes after this one is even better! – Watch here
Last night I put up the first poster for Aardman’s new collaborative project with Sony Pictures, called (in the US) The Pirates! Band of Misfits and in the UK The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. Now, Apple have released the first quite brilliant trailer for the movie which we can expect to see Spring next year. This is the second movie to get a trailer from both studios in the last 24 hours as their new movie, Arthur Christmas got it’s second trailer yesterday.
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 cast is rather awesome (includes Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Jeremy Piven) while Peter Lord directs and as you’ll see from this fantastic trailer, it all rather fun! My favourite character has to be the one wearing the Blue Peter badge which readers in the US will have NO idea what I’m talking about.
I’m going to watch it a few more times now to see what else I can spot. Aardman is most definitely becoming the UK’s version of Pixar, the studio who can do no wrong and we here cannot wait to see this movie when it’s complete. All hail Aardman!
