Selma’s Ava DuVernay set to helm A Wrinkle in Time for Disney
It seems that director Ava DuVernay is set to add another movie onto her impressive CV as she has set her sights on Walt Disney Pictures big screen adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel A WRINKLE IN TIME.
According to Deadline, DuVernay is the lady who will helm the film the book adaptation and was also in discussion to helm Disney’s Marvel Studios BLACK PANTHER last year, but plans for that didn’t quite pan out.
She is certainly an expert in demand, as the SELMA director has been offered work from DreamWorks to direct sci-fi thriller INTELLIGENT LIFE. It has been penned by JURASSIC WORLD‘s Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, and the movie already has Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (12 YEARS A SLAVE) on board. As no release dates have been confirmed as of yet, it is still unclear which movie will hit the big screen first.
The novel is described as follows: It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. “Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.” A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem. A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal.”
FROZEN screenwriter and co-director Jennifer Lee will adapt the book into a screenplay, with Jim Whitaker and Catherine Hand producing.
