TORONTO — Veteran Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is coming home to make Pirate’s Passage, an animated movie based on William Gilkerson’s award-winning 2006 children’s book.
Sutherland, 78, will lend his voice to the lead character, Captain Johnson. The Saint John, NB native also co-wrote the screenplay with Newfoundland-born Brad Peyton and is producing the project through his production company Martin’s River Ink, Inc.
“Pirate’s Passage is a thrillingly exhilarating adventure, a glorious coming-of-age-story, rich in both imagination and history, in perception and truth,” said Sutherland, in a release.
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“I couldn’t put the book down. It resonated with the clearest image of the man inside every boy’s being that I could imagine. It was life writ true and I knew Jim and Captain Johnson’s marvelous journey had to be seen on screen.”
Starring with Sutherland are Gage Munroe (Immortals), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy), Colm Feore (The Borgias), Megan Follows (Reign), Paul Gross (Due South) and Gordon Pinsent (Away From Her) and Rossif Sutherland (Reign).
The actors will record their dialogue at studios in Toronto and Santa Monica.
The production is being done by Ottawa’s PIP Animation with co-directors Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and Mike Barth.
Pirate’s Passage is set in 1952 in Grey Rocks, Nova Scotia. The novel won a Governor General’s Award.
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