This past March, at the New York International Children’s Film Festival, Roger Allers, the director of “The Lion King,” cheerfully answered kids’ questions about his newest movie, which had just had its U.S. première. He grinned directly at each young moviegoer who took the microphone: Yes, there aren’t that many animals in the movie, except for the birds. No, we don’t really know what happened to the little girl’s dad, we just know he’s gone and that’s why she doesn’t talk much. The movie is called “Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,” and it opens in New York and Los Angeles on August 7th, with showings in other cities to follow. When someone in the audience asked Allers about his experience with the book that the film is based on, the goateed baby-boomer in shirtsleeves let his gaze float into the middle distance and assumed a thoughtful tone.
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