Review A Wrinkle in Time (2018) March 9th

[Doctor Omega]

A Wrinkle in Time is an upcoming American fantasy adventure directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee.

It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle.

The film stars Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, and Oprah Winfrey.

Principal photography on the film began on November 2, 2016 in Los Angeles, California and has recently wrapped.

The film is scheduled to be released on April 6, 2018 in IMAX

 

[Amyghost]

A Wrinkle in Time is an upcoming American fantasy adventure directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee.

It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle.

The film stars Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, and Oprah Winfrey.

Principal photography on the film began on November 2, 2016 in Los Angeles, California and has recently wrapped.

The film is scheduled to be released on April 6, 2018 in IMAX

This is one that I've always been surprised wasn't filmed years ago. Of course, many of the visual effects probably require CGI to work effectively, but considering the perennial classic status of this, you'd think at the very least it would have been a candidate for an After School Special animated film or something similar.

I just re-read this about a year ago. Holds up fairly well, though the Christian allegory aspect of it is sometimes pretty heavy-handed, at least to an adult reader. I'm wondering how they'll handle this in the film, considering that the same themes made for some trouble with the C.S. Lewis Narnia adaptations (of course, no Islamic stereotypes show up in L'Engle's universe, so there's one potential stumbling block removed anyway).

 

[Doctor Omega]

“Selma” filmmaker Ava DuVernay has confirmed on her Twitter that the first trailer for her film adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s iconic 1963 children’s sci-fi novel “A Wrinkle in Time” will be screened during the convention’s Disney live-action panel on July 15th.

Newcomer Storm Reid teams with Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Zach Galifianakis in the film which opens early next year.

 

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First Trailer & Poster: “A Wrinkle In Time”





The Walt Disney Studios has premiered the first trailer and poster for Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” a reimagining of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel about Meg Murry and her brilliant brother Charles Wallace who go on an unexpected journey into alternate dimensions on a mission to bring home their father

The cast includes Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which, Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Who, Chris Pine as Mr. Murry, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Mrs. Murry, Zach Galifianakis as The Happy Medium, Andre Holland as Principal Jenkins, Levi Miller as Calvin, Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace, and introducing Storm Reid as Meg Murry. Bellamy Young, Rowan Blanchard and Will McCormack also star.

The film is slated to debut in cinemas on March 9th.

 

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“Game of Thrones” composer Ramin Djawadi has come aboard to do the score for Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s iconic novel “A Wrinkle in Time” at Disney Pictures. There’s no indication as yet regarding when the next trailer will hit, the first having launched at D23 during the Summer.

 

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Full Trailer: Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle In Time”





The Walt Disney Studios has premiered the full trailer for Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” a reimagining of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel about Meg Murry and her brilliant brother Charles Wallace who go on an unexpected journey into alternate dimensions on a mission to bring home their father

The cast includes Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which, Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Who, Chris Pine as Mr. Murry, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Mrs. Murry, Zach Galifianakis as The Happy Medium, Andre Holland as Principal Jenkins, Levi Miller as Calvin, Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace, and introducing Storm Reid as Meg Murry. Bellamy Young, Rowan Blanchard and Will McCormack also star.

The film is slated to debut in cinemas on March 9th.

 

[Doctor Omega]

The comments in that last trailer are largely unkind.......

Why cant they just make the story as written. It would be different if they took a blah book and punched it up, but this is a classic. A book that has inspired 2 generations to explore the universe around them, and to read and look between the lines. The "3" were described in great detail. Why do they need to change them? Because Oprah wants big costumes? I'm 56, and I'm to old to have my childhood ruined with a bad movie of a good book.

Holy crap, this looks a LOT worse than I remember. It looks so...generic. Like a bad Doctor Who ripoff. Such a shame.

They are totally missing th point. It isn’t some visually stunning piece of art, it should be a scientifically relevant piece on how science moves the mind and would To the unthinkable. It is not a be the warrior type film, I just don’t like how they’re marketing it.

The idea is cool, but everything else seems painfully cheap, silly, hacky, and derivative.

 

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TV spot....

 

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Disney Pictures has released a new featurette for filmmaker Ava Duvernay’s upcoming adaptation of the famed Madeleine L’Engle novel “A Wrinkle in Time”. The clip has gone online following its airing during the broadcast of the 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards.

The focus here is on the ‘effortless diversity’ with its cast and characters and the lush visual world of DuVernay’s take on L’Engle’s famously sketchy descriptions of the universe she created.

In the film Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father for five years ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there.

Joined by Meg’s classmate Calvin O’Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all of the evil in the universe.

Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Pea, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Zach Galifianakis, and Chris Pine star in the film which opens March 9th.

 

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UK Trailer: “A Wrinkle in Time”



Disney Pictures’ UK division has released a new international trailer for Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” this one offering glimpses at some of the worlds we’ll see in this reimagining of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel about Meg Murry and her brilliant brother Charles Wallace who go on an unexpected journey into alternate dimensions on a mission to bring home their father.

The cast includes Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which, Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Who, Chris Pine as Mr. Murry, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Mrs. Murry, Zach Galifianakis as The Happy Medium, Andre Holland as Principal Jenkins, Levi Miller as Calvin, Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace, and introducing Storm Reid as Meg Murry. Bellamy Young, Rowan Blanchard and Will McCormack also star. The film opens on March 9th.

 

[The Seeker]

I saw the preview today. Maybe it doesn’t do the film justice, but I thought it was very “meh.”

 

[Doctor Omega]

“Wrinkle” Reviews Aren’t Good

There have been very mixed reviews for Ava DuVernay’s wide cinema release. The film sits at a still not good 43% and 5.3/10 average rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 52/100 on Metacritic.

The film has been praised for its intentions, visual ambition and emotional heart. However, the source material has been deemed near impossible to adapt in the past and almost every review agrees with that sentiment. The film’s script is trashed in numerous reviews for being a very loose take on the book which routinely forgoes the story in trying to make its own points about self-empowerment.

This results in large plot holes and mismatched performances, the issues making it “wildly uneven, weirdly suspenseless, and tonally all over the place” says Variety’s Peter Debruge, others have dubbed it a textbook case of a “noble failure”. The film’s exuberance, design and spirit, however, have all been praised.