Loading ...How Salma Hayek And A Team Of Animators Brought Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" To Life
Salma Hayek tends to wax rhapsodic once she gets going on the subject of The Prophet. Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s book of spiritual musings has sold 120 million copies since first being published in 1923, but until Hayek and her team came along, nobody had ever attempted to turn the intellectual property into a feature film. Why not? The Prophet features plenty of New Age musings on love and death but nothing in the way of an actual story.
So Hayek executive produced a Disney-style narrative to draw moviegoers into Gibran’s text as envisioned by eight animators around the world. “The language of the film is the language of dreams,” explains Hayek, who also voices a stressed-out single mother in Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, opening August 7 in New York and Los Angeles. “That’s why it’s animated and not live action. We surprise you with these different chapters of animation that feel like dreams so that watching the movie becomes like having a journey inside of yourself.”
Source: www.fastcocreate.com