It’s an enormous country and it’s absolutely spectacular.

“It’s bigger than Germany, that’s what people don’t realise. The scope of their Madagascan filming location may sound surprising to many audiences, Clarkson claims: “Supposedly a very famous pirate scattered his treasure there and then threw clues to the crowd shortly before he was hung.” “I love the romance, the idea of a pirate era because I’m a child,” he declares. It’s a topic of discussion that Hammond is passionate about: “Hammond is obsessed with pirates, so he jumped up and down and squeaked a lot when I said it, and then much to my better judgment, we decided it was going to be a pirate-based story.” “I’d never been, so I came up with this idea that we should go to Madagascar.”