The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates (also known as Tom Gates: The Movie) is a upcoming 2022 live-action/animated children's musical comedy film directed by David Bowers, Simon Wells and Liz Pichon and produced by Annie Doona, Stewart Till and John Woodward and based on the 2011 book of the same name.

The film is a international co-production between companies in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Animation was handled by Irish company Cartoon Saloon, British company Wild Child Animation and Canadian companies Yowza Animation and Elliott Animation. The film stars Aaron O'Donnell as Tom Gates, Sean Crosse as Derek Fingle, Cronan Cooper as Norman Watson and Michael Flanagan as Frank Gates. It is set to be released on December 23 2022 by Warner Animation Group, the UK Film Council, TG Entertainment, Scholastic Entertainment, The Irish Film Board and the British Film Institute, and it is set to be distributed by Warner Bros Pictures.

Contents

 * 1 PREMISE
 * 2 CAST
 * 3 PRODUCTION
 * 4 DEVELOPMENT
 * 5 ANIMATION
 * 6 MUSIC
 * 7 RELEASE

PREMISE
Join 13 year old Tom Gates as he sings catchy songs, doodling monsters and trying not to get caught by Mr. Fullerman

CAST

 * Aaron O'Donnell as Tom Gates, a young boy who goes to Oakfield School
 * Sean Crosse as Derek Fingle, Tom's best friend
 * Cronan Cooper as Norman Watson, Tom and Derek's other friend and member of the band DogZombies
 * Logan Matthews as Tom Gates's animated counterpart
 * Mark Bonnar as Mr Fullerman's animated counterpart
 * Catherine Tate as Rita Gates's animated counterpart
 * Ahann Gupta as Marcus Meldrew's animated counterpart
 * Nick Wollage as Mr Fullerman, Tom's teacher who dislikes Tom mainly
 * Matthew Chase as Tom's singing voice
 * Matthew Gordon as Derek's singing voice
 * Justin Davies as Norman's singing voice
 * Mia Noone as Pansy Bennett, one of Tom's classmates
 * Leah Helebert as Katie Costello, a friend of Pansy Bennett and Tom
 * Michael Flanagan as Frank Gates, Tom's dad and the husband of Rita Gates.
 * Mary Flanagan as Rita Gates, Tom's mom and the wife of Frank Gates
 * Mairead Flanagan as Delia Gates, Tom's older sister

PRODUCTION
On July 17 2020, the UK Film Council announced they were making a movie along with Screen Ireland (credited as Irish Film Board), The title was unknown until July 26 2020, Which was called 'The Brilliant World of Tom Gates', On August 3 2020, Liz Pichon announced she was directing along with directors Lenny Abrahamson and Nick Moore. It was announced on August 27 2020 that Lenny Abrahamson, along with Nick Moore, decided to direct additional sequences for the movie. On September 13 2020, It was announced that Irish company Cartoon Saloon and British company Wild Child Animation alongside Canadian companies Yowza Animation, Tonic DNA and Elliott Animation would animate the movie.

On October 2 2020, David Bowers was announced as director. Character Designers Sylvain Deboissy and Peter Chan mentioned that the movie would feature the same kind of animation style as the book. In October 17 2020, The movie's rights were brought by Warner Bros Pictures and it's animation company Warner Animation Group. On November 5 2020, Canadian animator Frank Macchia and German animator Fabian Erlinghäuser signed on as Animation Supervisors. On November 29 2020, Rupert Gregson-Williams signed on as composer, alongside Lorne Balfe. The music was supervised by Mark Flannery and Duncan Smith.

In December 16 2020, It was announced Keith Oliver joined the project as a animation producer. On 6 January 2021, Nick Moore (who was additionally a director for the additional scenes in the movie) announced that he would be the editor for the live-action sequences in the movie while Chris Cartagena would be the editor for the animation sequences.

In March 2021, Heitor Pereira was also set to be a composer, he was originally a guitarist for the UK orchestra, but encouraged by co-composer Lorne Balfe to compose as well.

A few months later in June, It was announced that Aaron O'Donnell was casted as Tom Gates and in July, Michael Flanagan was cast as Frank Gates, principal animation started on August 14 2021 while principal photography started on September 12 2021 in Ireland. Sean Crosse and Cronan Cooper were casted as Derek Fingle and Norman Watson on October 1 2021.

On September 5 2021, A official poster came out, it features Tom, Derek and Norman practising DogZombies song in the animated dimension. The animated poster was produced in France and drawn by Didier Ah-Koon, who also serves as a storyboard artist in the film.

On November 4 2021, It was announced that British composer Dominic Lewis would compose additional music, orchestrate, arrange & programme additional tracks for the movie. John Ashton Thomas was already orchestrating music during the month of September, but due to his death on the October 4, Dominic Lewis was hired to orchestrate the rest.

On December 1 2021, Director David Bowers got into a feud with Warner Animation Group with the 2 hour runtime, Warner Animation Group executive Chris Leahy told Bowers that a Warner Animation Group movie can't be 2 hours long, David Bowers wanted the 2 hour runtime because he had lots of material to put in the movie, then Allison Abbate told Bowers that if you want the 2 hour runtime, omit us from the credits' David Bowers didn't want to do that since they were working on the film with him for over a year and that he didn't want to uncredit them from the movie, Since Warner Animation Group gathered the storyboard artists, character designers & animators together to work on the film. David Bowers was forced by Chris Leahy to omit the Warner Animation Group credit from the credits, which he refused to do, David Bowers stated that he'll omit all the story & animation department from the movie if Warner Animation Group agreed with the 2 hour runtime, which was on Chris Leahy & Allison Abbate's nerves becauuse if he omitted the animation & story department, the audience would have thought that Warner Animation Group wasn't involved in this film. They also watched the parts that Bowers had done and they complained that were not that much animation sequences in the film, Bowers stated that it would be like the 2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie, In the end, Bowers got to keep the Warner Animation Group credit, but on December 2 2021, Warner Animation Group left the film to focus on it's upcoming movies.

On December 13 2021, Danish animator Stefan Fjeldmark, who worked on films such as Eight Crazy Nights & Terkel In Trouble, was set to join as a animator. Along him joining are Joe Giampapa, Jack Hsu, Stephan Franck & Liz Pichon (the film's director).

On December 17 2021, A teaser poster for the film came out with the film's official release date, December 23 2022. The poster shows Tom dressed up in a Santa Claus hat with a beard.

On December 30 2021, British story artist Simon Wells was confirmed to be a director, writer, executive producer and the head of story department for the film. Editor Nick Moore and Ian France, George Sawyer, Sueann Rochester, Jennifer Mackie, Kieran Parker, Arabella Page Croft and Ken Anderson are all set to be executive producers alongside Simon Wells for the film. Simon Wells previously storyboarded scenes for The LEGO Ninjago Movie and Smallfoot, both made by Warner Animation Group, which also served as a production company for this film.

On January 13 2022, David Bowers decided to re-shoot the film again (due to it's original 2 hour runtime). The re-shot version is set to be somewhere between 90 minutes long. When Warner Animation Group heard about this, they decided to serve as a production company for the film again.

On January 18 2022, Film Director Brenda Chapman (whom she collaborated with Simon Wells on The Prince Of Egypt) decided to join as a Storyboard Artist for the song sequences in the film. James Baxter, Maximilian Graenitz and Steve Cunningham joined the Animation Team. Later that day, 2 more females were casted for the film, Leah Helebert and Mia Noone, they will play Katie Costello and Pansy Bennett, two of Tom's classmates.

On January 20 2022, The film was announced to be filmed in Kinvara, Galway, with additional scenes filmed in London, England.

On February 15 2022, Prior to the release of the first trailer of the second season of the TV show, director Simon Wells suggested some of the animation crew from London and Canada to re-animate those segments before April.

On March 1 2022, It was announced that Scholastic, the publisher of the books, would join as production company as it's Scholastic Entertainment name.

DEVELOPMENT
Between July 26 2020 and September 13 2020, Liz Pichon along with Lenny Abrahamson and Nick Moore were thinking of a idea if they should add different parts or cut out some parts, the vote was held as a event from July 29 2020 until September 9 2020, The winning vote was to cut out some parts.

ANIMATION
Animation companies throughout America, Canada, England and Ireland signed on to animate the movie. Those including Canada's Elliott Animation, Yowza Animation, Tonic DNA, Ireland's Cartoon Saloon and England's Wild Child Animation. Deluxe Animation Studios signed on to do the Cel Painting, and Sony Pictures Imageworks's American and Canadian units joined production in September 26 as the animation checkers. Stop motion animation in the songs will be provided by Aardman Animations in Bristol. The animation was made in 4 different countries, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland and Canada. The animation was supervised by Frank Macchia and Fabian Erlinghauser, and produced by Marc Leighton and Keith Oliver. All of the animation companies would get called to animate each scene from the film, Some of the songs were animated by different animation studios and once finished the different parts, they sended the animated parts to editor Chris Cartagena to put together alongside Jim Andrews.

MUSIC
The music will be composed by Heitor Pereira, Lorne Balfe and Rupert Gregson-Williams. Music was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and AIR Studios in England, the United Kingdom. Gavin Greenaway signed up to be conductor, Perry Montague-Mason works as the concertmaster and Thomas Bowes is the Orchestra Leader. The music was supervised by Mark Flannery & Duncan Smith, while Liz Pichon wrote the songs. Heitor Pereira was originally set to be a guitarist (alongside George Doering) but was suggested to co-compose the film as well. The film had a UK and a USA orchestra. Additional music will be composed by Dominic Lewis.

RELEASE
The film is set to be released on December 23 2022. Filming is still in the process.