The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists into a 3-D stop-motion animated film released on March 28, 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the director of "Chicken Run", with the script written by the book's author Gideon Defoe. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists is the first book in The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe dealing with a hapless crew of pirates. It was published in 2004 by Orion Books (). The book was adapted into a stop-motion film by Aardman Animations. The book is set in 1837, and follows the adventures of "The Pirate Captain" and his crew
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Crying" by Flight of the Conchords. "The Pirates!" was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on 28 August 2012 in the United States, and on 10 September 2012 in the United Kingdom. The film is accompanied with an 18-minute short stop motion animated film called "So You Want to Be a Pirate!", where The Pirate Captain hosts his own talk show about being a true pirate. The short was also released on DVD on 13 August 2012, exclusively at Tesco stores in the United Kingdom. As a promotion for the release of "The Pirates!", Sony attached to every DVD