“A black girl with curly hair and glasses – it’s the idea that any of us can be a hero.” That’s how filmmaker Ava DuVernay describes the central character of her upcoming feature A Wrinkle in Time in a behind-the-scenes video released by the team on January 15. The movie will be released on March 9.
The Walt Disney production, starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaing, Chris Pine, Guru Mbatha-Raw and Storm Reid, is a reimagining of Madeleine L’Engle’s novel of the same name in which Meg Murry (Storm Reid) and her brother Charles Wallace embark on a mission to bring their father home. The mission is riddled with a journey to alternate dimensions and a whole new planet. “This is my favourite planet in the entire galaxy,” says Mrs Whatsit, played by Reese Witherspoon. “No offence to earth.”
Produced by Jim Whitaker and Catherine Hand, the screenplay has been written by Jennifer Lee of Frozen fame. “I’ve never been a part of a movie where the diversity represented both on camera and off camera is so effortlessly inclusive,” says Mindy Kaling, who plays Mrs Who in the film.