Paul McCartney “blown away” by Celine Dion’s work in ‘High In The Clouds’ adaptation: “What a talent”

Paul McCartney has shared an update on the film adaptation of his children’s book High In The Clouds, sharing that the work that Celine Dion has done on the project has left him feeling “blown away”.

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The project has been in the works for years now, and has recently been confirmed to have a star-studded cast including Celine Dion, Hannah Waddingham, Idris Elba, Lionel Richie, Jimmy Fallon, Himesh Patel, and Macca’s Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr.

It is directed by Tony Genkel, who adapted the script from McCartney’s book alongside Jon Crocker. The plot follows a teenage squirrel named Wirral, who fights to make music available again after an owl named Gretsch bans it.

Now, while there have been a steady stream of updates on the project since 2014, Paul McCartney has now shared a couple of images of him inside the recording studio with Celine Dion.

O livro original foi publicado em 2005, e em 2014 McCartney compartilhou que uma das “the first things” no filme será uma performance de “a female rock star who runs this animal city”, e no ano seguinte ele confirmou que havia gravado uma música original para o projeto com Lady Gaga (via DigitialSpy).

Four years after that, the producer of that song, Greg Kurstin, told Rolling Stone that it was recorded with “a full band, a brass section, background singers, and everything for this song that Paul had written for an animated film”.

Em outras notícias sobre Paul McCartney, a lenda da música lançou seu novo álbum ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ no início deste ano – seu primeiro disco solo desde ‘McCartney III’ de 2020, e apresentando seu primeiro dueto com o ex‑companheiro de banda dos Beatles, Ringo Starr.

Around the time of the album’s release, McCartney sat down with NME to look forward and back on his extraordinary career and reveal if he has plans to retire, and since then, he has also got nominated for a Mercury Prize.

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