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Watch the first trail­er for Ava DuVernay’s A Wrin­kle in Time

17 Jul 2017

Words by Josh Howey

The direc­tor of Sel­ma and 13th returns with a stun­ning-look­ing kid­die adventure.

The first teas­er trail­er for Ava DuVernay’s A Wrin­kle in Time was launched at Disney’s D23 event this week­end, and it sig­nals a change in direc­tion for the acclaimed Amer­i­can film­mak­er, who pre­vi­ous­ly brought us Sel­ma and 13th. This new one is a child-friend­ly fan­ta­sy adven­ture co-writ­ten by Frozen’s Jen­nifer Lee from Madeleine L’Engle’s clas­sic children’s nov­el from 1962.

The film fol­lows Meg (Storm Reid), her five-year-old boy genius broth­er, Charles (Der­ic McCabe), and school friend Calvin (Levi Miller). The group’s jour­ney to find and res­cue Meg and Charles’ sci­en­tist father (Chris Pine) will take them across time and space, pit­ting them up against an incred­i­ble plan­et rul­ing force known as The Black Thing.

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The trail­er boasts won­der­ful visu­als that reminds us of Brad Bird’s Tomor­row­land and is accom­pa­nied by a large cast of spark­ly cos­tumed char­ac­ters includ­ing Gugu Mbat­ha-Raw as Dr Mur­ry, Reese With­er­spoon as Mrs What­sit, Michael Peña as Red, Zach Gal­i­fi­anakis as The Hap­py Medi­um and Oprah Win­frey as Mrs Which.

To top it off, a scene that’s def­i­nite­ly more ter­ri­fy­ing than it should be, with shades of Bryan Forbes’ 1975 sci-fi hor­ror The Step­ford Wives, sug­gests there’ll be plen­ty here for old­er view­ers too.

A Wrin­kle in Time is released on 23 March, 2018.

A Wrinkle in Time film poster: Palm trees against a starry night sky, sunset colours, silhouetted figure walking along a path.
Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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