Khalil Gibran’s best known fictional work The Prophet is being adapted as an animated feature film in a new production. A collaborative international effort, each of the 89-year old book’s chapters will be directed by a different filmmaker. The line-up of contributors includes Mohammed Saeed Harib, the Emirati animator behind the cartoon Freej and Iranian Marjane Satrapi, whose Persepolis was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2007 Academy Awards. Roger Allers, the director of The Lion King, will be responsible for the connective through-line narrative.
Pre-production on the project is scheduled to begin this month. Salma Hayek will produce, along with Clark Peterson and Ron S
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