Tad, the Lost Explorer (Spanish: Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones, lit. 'The Adventures of Tadeo Jones') is a 2012 Spanish animated adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato. The film is a spinoff of Gato's 2004 short film, Tadeo Jones and its sequel Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom. While technically based on the shorts, the film was mainly adapted from the Spanish graphic novel Tadeo and the Secret of the Toactlum, illustrated and co-written by Juan L贸pez Fern谩ndez (Jan) and written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magall贸n, and Gato. The film was adapted and written by Barreira, Magall贸n, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull, and Neil Landau.