The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
| The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mike Nawrocki |
| Written by | Phil Vischer |
| Produced by | Big Idea Productions Jellyfish Labs |
| Starring | Phil Vischer Mike Nawrocki |
| Music by | Kurt Heinecke |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates | January 11, 2008 |
| Language | English |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie is to be the second feature length film in the VeggieTales series. It is set to release on January 11, 2008. The film is rated G by the MPAA.
Big Idea, Inc, the creator of the VeggieTales series, is producing the film. Starz Media (formerly DKP Productions and IDT Entertainment), who is the animation house behind all VeggieTales productions since 2002, will be doing the computer animation. The script is being written by Phil Vischer, and Mike Nawrocki will direct the film. Vischer and Nawrocki were the co-creators of the VeggieTales series. Vischer will also be the executive producer under his current company Jellyfish Labs, and Big Idea's David Pitts will serve as producer. The film will feature an original soundtrack by Big Idea's Kurt Heinecke, and will be distributed by Universal Pictures.
Big Idea has estimated that it will take $15 million USD to bring Pirates to the screen. Phil Vischer has stated in his blog that storyboarding is complete, and voice recording was complete in September 2006. The trailer of the film has been released with the 2007 film, Evan Almighty, another film about biblical stories which is also being distributed by Universal.
Plot
Three lazy misfits-- Elliot, Sedgewick and George (Larry the Cucumber, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape)- dream of the day when they can quit their jobs as busboys at the Pieces of Ate Dinner Theater and take the stage to star in the big pirate show. But with Elliot's timidity, Sedgewick's laziness and George's lack of self-confidence, it seems as if the day to prove who they really are will never come. However, when an artifact called a "HelpSeeker" arrives from the past, it sends the three back in time into a real pirate adventure, setting in motion a series of events that drags the trio back to the 17th century, where they face danger, their fears, and become unlikely heroes in a battle to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant. In this story they each learn to be a real pirate, hero, and friend.
Trivia
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- This is the first VeggieTales film to be distributed by a major Hollywood studio.
- The movie takes its name from a VeggieTales Silly Song of the same name. The song was covered by the Christian rock band Relient K in 2002, and that version of the song is being used in the trailers for the movie.
- This is the first major motion picture to be released by Classic Media and the second to be released by Big Idea.
- For the first time Pirate Pa will wear his glasses for the whole movie.
- This is Universal's first theatrically-released computer-animated film ever.
- This is Universal's second theatrically-released feature-length animated film since 1995's Balto, the first being the traditionally-animated Curious George.
- This is Universal's third theatrically-released feature-length film to be rated G by the MPAA since 1998's Babe: Pig in the City, the first two were Curious George and Mr. Bean's Holiday.
- The name of the dinner theatre is a reference to the phrase Pieces of eight, which was used in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Treasure Island.