no array animation Spanish broke as many box office records as Tadeo Jones’s. Its first episode was a real phenomenon that took everyone by surprise and exceeded 18 million euros. The second part exceeded 17 million euros. Until the arrival of Enrique Gato and the Lightbox army, animation did not have such an industrial impact in our country. So the logical thing was to complete the trilogy. Now ‘Tadeo Jones 3. The Emerald Table’ is coming to theaters where those in charge make it better and bigger on both a technical and narrative level.
“When we started developing this third part, we were clear that we needed to convey it. franchise has grown the character as well as the story. ‘We go on without further ado,’ I never thought that evolution needed to be noticed, that you had to do something that was really valuable and had a certain weight,” Enrique Gato tells EL PERIÓDICO, a newspaper owned by EL PERIÓDICO. This media, as well as the Prensa Ibérica group, in a phone call a few days before the premiere.
He admits that the hardest part was finding a new narrative arc for the character and his friends. More than twenty versions of the script took a year and a half, but Josep Gatell and Manuel Burque (The tandem in charge of the ‘Operación Camarón’ or ‘Es port tu bien’) was fundamental. “They’ve been a real find, because they dominate the comedic tone that’s been added to the animation,” he continues.
‘Tadeo Jones 3rd Emerald Tablet’ is more adventurous, it takes us to multiple places and Much more compact and compatible than its predecessors.. In it, Tadeo is frustrated that his achievements are not recognized, and this causes problems in his relationship with his profession. A message that many adults will mirror. “This is a very human thing, we all need some form of validation, recognition. The movie plays with that message and makes it the axis of everything.”
Although for children the main attraction of the proposal will of course again be the Inca mummy, which has been transformed into Tadeo’s inseparable friend, and on this occasion a new discovery will also accompany it. another mummy In this case of Egypt named Ramona. “When a new character comes along, there’s one thing that’s fundamental, and it’s somehow connected to the plot, and Ramona gave us that, she’s been added to the story, and that’s the only way they don’t stay as simple anecdotal characters.”
‘Tadeo Jones 3rd Emerald Table’ was in development for a year hit by the pandemic. However, more than a hindrance, the team has reinvented itself and incorporated new remote working methods that allow them to access talent from all over the world. Enrique Gato is aware of the enormous evolution of the epic and It is clear to him that this is not only due to technical advances, but also to the fact that artistic teams and professionals are getting better and better. “Spain has always been a hotbed of talent. There are professionals who have worked for major Hollywood studios from the beginning. Now the difference is that it is produced from here, and there are huge projects that travel all over the world. After all, this was the goal that seemed unthinkable twenty years ago, to build an industry”.