Paul McCartney utters the walrus Clouds are highfeatures of Gaumont Animation, currently in production prior to its 2027 release.
McCartney has been trying to adapt his book for 15 years. He is currently moving forward with Gaumont. Gaumont presents stills and artwork for today’s features at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Clouds are high Wirral the Squirrel is a young creature who lives with his mother, who lost her voice due to the demonic dictator Gretsch, who banned all music from the town. Wirral will need to work with members of the rebellion called The Underground and a band called The Sweets to subvert Gretsch and regain the voices of many.
McCartney will play Paul McKenzie, a walrus who plays rock band sweets as a left-handed bassist, like McCartney himself.
The character nodded to the 1967 Beatles song “I Am the Walrus,” and said that John Lennon wrote the lyrics of nonsense to confuse fans to find meaning. The following year, the band recorded “Glass Onion,” which included the lyrics “The Walrus was Paul.” Lennon was about making people even more confused.
The 105-minute Gaumont presentation includes a video message from McCartney, and Wirral’s hero is based on the late Lennon, he said. “Whenever you asked him anything, he would always get a quick, squeal answer,” McCartney said.
McCartney said that Sugartaire, another animal character in the film, was inspired by his late wife, Linda McCartney. “I first came up with this idea after the death of my child’s mom, Linda. I knew everyone was missing her, so if I could bring her back to the movie, it would be very good for them,” McCartney said. “Sugartaire is like Linda. She’s strong and resourceful.”
The Beatles legend also declined to ty-in the film’s fast food, honoring Linda, who created the vegetarian food that is popular today.
McCartney has created 13 original songs from the film. Six of these will be used in the final function. The behind-the-scenes promotion presented by Gaumont bullyed the titles of two tracks, “Happy Morning” and “I Will Will Anto.” Though Gaumont executive Terry Kalagian wanted to emphasize “the power of music” rather than musicals.
The presentation was hosted by Kalagian, president of Gaumont’s Global Animation. with film director Toby Jenkel and project director Christian De Vita.
“Working with Paul really moved the film from a beautiful, independent film to what I believe will become a global brand that will attract audiences from little ones to grandmothers and grandfathers,” Karagean said.
2019 screen Himeshpatel from Star of Tomorrow voices Wiral and Hannah Wadingham as the evil Gretsch. Viral’s parents, voiced by Celine Dion and Idris Elba, used McCartney’s Beatles bandmate Ringo Star as drumming ostriches in the sweets. Lionel Richie, Jimmy Fallon, Clemence Posey, Pom Clementiev and Alan Chabat are also featured in the cast.
Fallon voices a character called Froggo. The froggo is extremely active despite lacking lower limbs. “It’s about inclusivity,” Karagian said. “You can do who you are, but we wanted to reflect that in the film.”
McCartney is a creator, executive producer, songwriter, composer and the voice cast. Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacino also wrote the film’s score. Paddington 2 Writer John Crocker wrote the script.
Gaumont already has extensive pre-sale to major territories, including UK Sky.
The film is produced with unique features by Paul McCartney, Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne of MPL Communications, and is a product of MPL Communications, Michele Anthony, David Blackman’s Polygram Entertainments, Lemoko Investments, Sky and James Lnederlander.
The film is based on an adventure book of the same name by McCartney and Philip Ardagh, portrayed by Geoff Dunbar, and was first published in 2005.
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