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 face", though he is quite successful at terrifying non-pirates. He is also - as are all the rest of his crew - rather obsessed with Ham. His pirates are never given names, only descriptions, such as "the pirate with a scarf", "the pirate in green" and "the pirate with gout". These descriptions are used consistently throughout the series for each character, and the pirates occasionally refer to each other using them, but always use "The Pirate Captain" as if it were their captain's name. We are also introduced to Black Bellamy, the Pirate Captain's cunning and black-hearted nemesis, Jennifer, a