Ava DuVernay flirted with the job of directing Marvel’s “Black Panther,” but ultimately decided to go her own way, which means we get the best of both worlds — Ryan Coogler helming the Marvel movie (which released a bunch of new images this morning), and the “Selma” director getting her own big-budget Disney movie, with an adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s beloved sci-fi/fantasy novel “A Wrinkle In Time.”
DuVernay shot the movie last year, but it’s remained fervently under wraps, but with a trailer set to bow at D23 this coming weekend, the veil has been lifted with Entertainment Weekly premiering the first official images from the movie in their new Comic-Con preview issue.
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As well as DuVernay herself on set, we get the first look at her young star Storm Reid, playing Meg, along with Chris Pine as her father, and Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling as three celestial beings who help her on her quest to find her missing scientist dad, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Who.
It looks terrific, which is no surprise to DuVernay, who apparently hadn’t read the book before she was offered the script, by “Frozen” scribe Jennifer Lee, but immediately clicked with it. “I saw so much beauty in it,” she tells EW, “but also so much meaning. [L’Engle] is a very radical thinker and she embedded her sense of what society should and could be in this piece, and a lot of it I agree with. And through that, the story of this girl saving the world and being out there in the universe slaying the darkness, it also says a lot about slaying our own dragons.”
