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Ava DuVer­nay is mak­ing a live action Dis­ney movie

24 Feb 2016

Words by Little White Lies

Smiling woman operates film camera on movie set, surrounded by crew members.
Smiling woman operates film camera on movie set, surrounded by crew members.
The Sel­ma direc­tor is in talks to direct a major new adap­ta­tion of ​‘A Wrin­kle in Time’ for the studio.

We love Ava DuVer­nay. In addi­tion to mak­ing one of our favourite films of 2015, the Amer­i­can film­mak­er has been a com­mand­ing voice of rea­son in the ongo­ing debate around racial inequal­i­ty in Hol­ly­wood ever since she launched the African-Amer­i­can Film Fes­ti­val Releas­ing Move­ment back in 2010. She is also, along with Creed direc­tor Ryan Coogler, set to miss this Sunday’s Oscars cer­e­mo­ny in order to attend a char­i­ty event rais­ing aware­ness for the pre­dom­i­nant­ly black com­mu­ni­ty that has been affect­ed by the water cri­sis in Flint, Michigan.

Now, Dead­line is report­ing that DuVer­nay has signed on to direct Made­line L’Engle’s 1963 fan­ta­sy nov­el ​‘A Wrin­kle in Time’ for Dis­ney. Which is excit­ing and some­what sur­pris­ing news, giv­en that DuVer­nay recent­ly passed on anoth­er big stu­dio project, Marvel’s Black Pan­ther – a gig which even­tu­al­ly went to Coogler.

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‘A Wrin­kle in Time’ cen­tres on a young girl who cross­es into alter­nate dimen­sions in search of her miss­ing father, encoun­ter­ing a vari­ety of weird and won­der­ful crea­tures along the way. The poten­tial for this live action adap­ta­tion is huge, espe­cial­ly with Frozen’s Jen­nifer Lee pro­vid­ing the script, but what­ev­er the out­come it’s cer­tain­ly an inter­est­ing career move for the Sel­ma direc­tor. Giv­en how well her oth­er forth­com­ing project, the sci-fi thriller Intel­li­gent Life, is shap­ing up, we’ve no rea­son to believe DuVer­nay will deliv­er any­thing less than spectacular.

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