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! The Captain is stripped of the prize, treasure, pirate attire, and his pirating licence and is banished from Blood Island by the Pirate King, and admits his loss of Polly to his crew, who abandon him. The Captain returns to London, intent on rescuing Polly. He reunites with Darwin, learning that the Queen is a member of an exclusive society of world leaders that feast on endangered creatures, and that Polly is likely on her flagship, the "QV1", to be served at the next meal. The Pirate Captain and Darwin work together to steal an airship to travel to the