About Gideon Defoe
Born 1975. Gideon Defoe is a British screenwriter, writer and archaeologist.
Gideon Defoe (born 26 December 1975) is an English novelist of The Pirates!, a historical fiction fantasy comedy book series about a group of pirates on their adventures. He also wrote the screenplay for The Pirates! Band of Misfits which is an Aardman Animations stop-motion animated feature film based on The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, the first book in The Pirates! book series. According to his 2020 book An Atlas of Extinct Countries, Defoe also does film development work with Locksmith Animation and StudioCanal and is developing a TV sitcom with BBC Studios.
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British writer
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Gideon Defoe was born on 26 December 1975 in Glasgow.
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Gideon Defoe is a screenwriter, writer and archaeologist.
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Gideon Defoe is British.
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