Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker Scott E. Anderson has said that the Iranian blockbuster “Muhammad (S)” could aid progress for the palate of the Iranian motion picture industry.
When other filmmakers see the outcome, they will try to adapt themselves to the profound criteria used in the production; they will try to create a work greater that the previous one, he said in a press released published by the film’s publicist on Monday.
Anderson is currently collaborating with a team working on the Iranian film, which will be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Majid Majidi.
Majidi has hired a number of the world’s heavyweights in the film industry for the movie, which will depict the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) from the age of 12 until his appointment to prophethood.
Three-time Academy Award winning Italian director of photography Vittorio Storaro, world-renowned Croat production designer Miljen Kreka Kljakovic and several other world celebrated cineastes are collaborating on this project.
This is first time that such a number of the world renowned cineastes are working on an Iranian film, which will be most expensive movie ever produced in the country. The film has been said to be budgeted at $30 million.
The visual effects for Abraha’s military raid to the city of Mecca in the same year as the Prophet Muhammad’s birth and several other events in the film plot will be accomplished by Anderson, who has been nominated for the Oscar three times for “Babe”, “Starship Troopers” and “Hollow Man”. He received the award for “Babe” in 1995.
He said that he always asks directors to brief the visual effects supervisors on their projects and let everybody to carry out his/her own job.
The visual effects supervisors are not supposed to change the style of a film, he noted.
“Muhammad (S)”, which experts say it will be world’s biggest project on the Prophet of Islam, is scheduled be distributed in Persian, Arabic and English.
The film will be shot on locations in Iran and three other countries, which still remain unspecified.
Source : TehranTimes
U.S. cineaste Scott E. Anderson is about ready to take photos on a location in Iran, in which some scenes from “Muhammad (S)” will be shot, in an undated photo..