Historical documents and facts have been compiled with the help of scholars, historians and clerics from different countries including Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria for over a year.Ģ20 hectares of land for film’s main locationĪfter completing the first draft of the script, theater director, writer and researcher Hamid Amjad joined the other screenwriters and focused his contribution mostly on writing the dialogues. Although Majidi himself is mostly known for making poetic movies, he has to his name a number of film titles that feature children as their main cast. Since Partovi specializes in the field of filmmaking for children and adolescents, one could guess Majidi’s latest cinematic rendition was going to focus on the Prophet’s childhood. The first draft of the screenplay was co-authored by Majidi and Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter Kambuzia Partovi. One of the distinctive features of the research conducted for this cinematic production was the director’s frequent visits with prominent Muslim scholars and clerics including Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Grand Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, and Grand Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani. Pre-production Research benefits from Muslim scholarly opinions The pre-production with a focus on research began in October 2007 and lasted for some three years with the first draft for the screenplay ready by March 2009. Majidi has mentioned that he had asked for Imam Reza’s (the eighth Shia Imam) permission when he was visiting the Holy city of Mashhad to participate in Ruyesh Religious Short Film Festival. With the launching of this cinematic project, a fresh life was breathed into the body of Iran’s cinema. Majidi asks Imam Reza’s permission to make his Muhammad biopic
When the accomplished filmmaker settled on directing a movie with a scope as high as this one, he was certainly aware of the fact that he was threading a dangerous path which would invite many opposing as well as supporting critics to review his production regardless, Majidi decided to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and launch the project on Eid al-Adha 2011. Now all the Muslims in Iran and across the globe are enthusiastically looking forward to the public screening of this highly-anticipated historical and religious cinematic rendition. In 2015, Vilks survived a gun attack at a free-speech conference in Copenhagen that left a Danish film director dead.Muhammad, Messenger of God directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi was finally premiered on February 12, 2015, for filmmakers, journalists and film critics at Farhang Theater Hall in Tehran amid much positive critical reception. The depiction also sparked diplomatic friction, with Sweden's then prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt meeting ambassadors from several Muslim countries to ease tensions. Vilks had been under police protection since his 2007 cartoon of Mohammed with a dog's body prompted outrage among those who consider depictions of the Muslim prophet deeply offensive or blasphemous.Īl-Qaeda offered a $100,000 reward for Vilks' murder. "The person we were protecting and two colleagues died in this inconceivable and terribly sad tragedy," said regional police head Carina Persson. In a statement, the police said the cause of the accident was unclear.
PROPHET MUHAMMAD MOVIE 2015 DRIVER
Both vehicles caught fire and the truck driver was hospitalised, according to police. The accident occurred near the small town Markaryd when the car Vilks was travelling in crashed into an oncoming truck. Because two policemen were involved, an investigation has been assigned to a special section of the prosecutor's office," a police spokesperson told AFP, adding that there was no suspicion of foul play. "This is being investigated like any other road accident.
The 75-year-old and two police officers were killed in a collision with an oncoming truck, Swedish police confirmed to AFP.
STOCKHOLM: Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who lived under police protection after his 2007 depiction of the Prophet Mohammed prompted death threats, was killed on Sunday in a road accident. Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was living under police protection.
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