Kaena: The Prophecy

Kaena: The Prophecy

Promotional poster for US release.
Directed by Chris Delaporte
Pascal Pinon
Produced by Marc du Pontavice
Written by Patrick Daher
Chris Delaporte
Tarik Hamdine
Starring Kirsten Dunst
Richard Harris
Anjelica Huston
Keith David
Ciara Janson
Music by Farid Russlan
Edited by Bénédicte Brunet
Production
company
Distributed by StudioCanal (France)
Samuel Goldwyn Films (USA)
TVA
Release dates
 June 2003 (France)
July 2004 (USA)
Running time
 85 min
Country France/Canada
Language French, English

Kaena: The Prophecy (also known as Kaena: La prophétie) is a 2003 French-Canadian computer-generated fantasy movie. The United States release of the film is distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and features the voices of Kirsten Dunst, Richard Harris (in his last role before his death), Anjelica Huston, Keith David and Ciara Janson.

Chris Delaporte started work on the film in 1995 after leaving at Eric Chahi's company Amazing Studio halfway through development of the Studio's only game Heart of Darkness.

Plot

The film begins with an alien ship crash landing on a desert planet. The alien survivors, known as Vecarians, are quickly killed by the planet's predatory native inhabitants, the Selenites. The ship's core, Vecanoi, survives, and from it sprouts Axis, a massive tree reaching up into space.

600 years later, a race of human-like tree-dwellers have evolved living in the branches of Axis. One of them, a young girl named Kaena (voiced by Kirsten Dunst), is an adventurous daydreamer who longs to explore the world beyond the confines of her village. Kaena's inquisitiveness is opposed as heresy by the village elder, who commands his people to stay productive and toil for the villager's gods (who are, unbeknownst to them, the Selenites living in the planet below).

Led by prophetic dreams of a world with a blue sun and plentiful water, Kaena eventually defies the elder and climbs to the top of Axis. There, she encounters the ancient alien Opaz (voiced by Richard Harris), the last survivor of the Vecarian race that crash landed on the planet centuries ago. Opaz has used his technology to evolve a race of intelligent worms to serve him and help him escape the planet. Upon learning of Kaena's dreams, Opaz enlists her help in retrieving Vecanoi, which contains the collective memory of his people.

However, Vecanoi rests at the base of Axis, where the Selenites dwell. The Queen of the Selenites (voiced by Anjelica Huston) blames Vecanoi for the destruction of their planet, and has spent most of her life (and sacrificed the future of her people) attempting to destroy it.

Cast

French cast

English cast

References

Interview with director Chris Delaporte—FilmJerk.com

External links

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