Date 27/11/2015 - News People
Salma Hayek, the Oscar-nominated star. wanted to create an animated movie around The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran's famous collection of philosophical poems for a number of years. Hayek, who was born in Mexico, tells it, she was about 6 years old when she first saw a copy of the book belonging to her maternal grandfather, who was Lebanese, like Gibran himself. In recent years Hayek has began producing projects and it has brought Gibran's Poems to life. she enlisted the aid of Roger Allers, a former Disney animator who worked on the stories for Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and one of the directors of The Lion King. The director credits Hayek with developing the idea of the movie's framing story, which Allers then wrote.
