Madison Gate Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for Aardman Animation’s and Sony Pictures Animation’s 3D stop-motion animated feature The Pirates! Band of Misfits. The album features the original score from the movie composed by Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder, The Devil Wears Prada) who makes his animated feature scoring debut on the film. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 24, 2012. UPDATE (June 2012): The album has also been released as an on demand CD-R on Amazon. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the release below. The Pirates! Band of Misfits is directed by Peter Lord (Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run) & Jeff Newitt and features the voice talent of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Imelda Staunton and David Tennant. The film has been released in the UK under title The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists and will be arriving in domestic theaters on April 27.
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Theodore Shapiro to Score ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’
Film Music Reporter has learned that composer Theodore Shapiro will make his animation scoring debut on the upcoming film The Pirates! Band of Misfits. The film’s story follows the fortunes of a cheerful but hapless pirate band as they cross the seven seas in search of adventure. The Aardman Animations-produced movie is directed by Peter Lord who is best known for his collaborations with Nick Park on the Wallace & Gromit series and the 2000 feature film Chicken Run, which he co-directed alongside Park. More recently, he also produced the Aardman Animations production Flushed Away and is involved in the upcoming animated film Arthur Christmas, which has Michael Giacchino attached to write the music. The Pirates! is co-directed by Jeff Newitt who previously worked as an animator on Aardman’s Chicken Run and Flushed Away. Not much is known about he project at this point, but it has been announced that The Pirates! will be created with the hand-crafted claymation/stop-motion technique that Aardman is known for and that the movie will be released in 3D.