Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to collaborate on new film project with Yesterday star
7 May 2025, 11:33
High in the Clouds features two Beatles plus Céline Dion and Lionel Richie.
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As the two surviving members of The Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have remained close friends and occasional collaborators since the passing of their bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison.
McCartney and Starr shocked the world when they joined forces in 2023 for the last ever Beatles single 'Now and Then', and they're now working together again on a very different project.
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Starr will lend his voice to new 3D animated film High in the Clouds, which is based on the children's book written by Macca together with Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh.
The Beatles connections don't end there, as one of the lead roles will be voiced by Himesh Patel, who starred in Richard Curtis's Fab Four-related movie Yesterday.
Céline Dion and Hannah Waddingham will also play key roles, with the voice cast rounded out by Idris Elba, Lionel Richie, Jimmy Fallon, Clémence Poésy, Pom Klementieff and Alain Chabat.
McCartney has long been a creator of works for children and collaborated with Dunbar on the Rupert and the Frog Song film in 1981, with the animation spawning the hit single 'We All Stand Together'.
It was with writer Ardagh and animator Dunbar again that he wrote his first children's book in 2005: High in the Clouds: An Urban Furry Tail
He released Hey Grandude! with Kathryn Durst in 2019 and follow-up Grandude's Green Submarine in 2021.
