‘Lion King’s’ Roger Allers Joins Animated ‘Prophet’

January 16, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment

Roger Allers, who co-directed Disney’s smash hit The Lion King and Sony Pictures Animation’s Open Season, has signed on to an animated adaptation of Khalil Gibran’s poetry collection The Prophet. According to Deadline.com, Allers will oversee the creative end of the movie, which will feature chapters made by other animators. [...]

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Salma Hayek Joins Effort to Animate Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’

March 8, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment

Award-winning actress Salma Hayek and her company Ventanarosa Productions are reportedly joining a project to make an animated feature based on the classic poetry collection, The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. The project is being produced by Clark Peterson and Ron Senkowski, with Hayek’s producing partner Jose Tamez and co-financier Steve Hanson [...]

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