HIGH IN THE CLOUD

Paul McCartney to Score Animated Musical Based on His Children's Book

7:45 p.m. · June 18, 2009 · by Matthew Richardson

In 2005, Paul McCartney released Children's Book High in the Clouds, co-authored with Geoff Dunbar and Philip Adragh, about a squirrel who sets off on a journey to find a tropical animal sanctuary. Maybe spurred on by the recent success of movies about high up in the clouds, production company Unique Features is making the book into a movie, and McCartney is committed to doing the soundtrack.

If you want to guess what that could be like, you could maybe watch Yellow Submarine, but animated movies aren't really anything like they were in 1968, and neither is Paul McCartney's music.

‘High in the Clouds’: The Movie

by  Philip Adragh

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

I’m pleased to report that High in the Clouds,the book I wrote with Paul McCartney and illustrator/animation director Geoff Dunbar, is to be made into a film. The idea started life as Paul’s song Tropic Island Hum which became the basis for an animated short film, Wirral the Squirrel, produced by Paul and Linda, and directed by Geoff. This then developed into the book High in the Clouds (which is where I came in) and which, in turn, is now to become a feature-length film. The really great news is that not only is the screenplay by the writer of Edward Scissorhands, and that it’s to be directed by the director of The Lion King, but that Paul himself will be writing the music. Fingers crossed, it should be out in 2012.