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Disney’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Trailer Sparkles With Black Girl Magic
On March 9, 2018, movie go-ers will be transported to planets that defy the social structure of our current world. With a young black girl as the lead, Storm Reid, epitomizes #blackgirlmagic, in her role as Meg Murry from Madeleine L’Engle’s 1963 award winning children’s book, “A Wrinkle In Time.”
Disney gave fans a glimpse of the first official trailer this weekend.
“Your father has accomplished something extraordinary, but also dangerous,” Winfrey’s character says in the trailer. “He’s trapped by a darkness that’s actively spreading throughout the universe, and the only one who can stop it is you.”
Meg, a young girl (played by Reid, who made her film debut in the Oscar-winning “Twelve Years A Slave,”) embarks on an interplanetary journey with her classmate and little brother to find her scientist father (Chris Pine). Meg is accompanied by the three female guides, Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling) and Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey).
Viewers get a glimpse of the extraordinary costumes and visual effects that make this film so magical. The enchanted story that travels from planet to planet is strung together by the chilling cover of the ’80s band Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams” in the 1:49 minute trailer.
“My whole process with this film was, what if? With these women, I wondered, could we make them women of different ages, body types, races? Could we bring in culture, bring in history in their costumes? And in the women themselves, could we just reflect a fuller breadth of femininity?,” Director Ava DuVernay said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
DuVernay, Director of “13th,” “Selma” and TV series “Queen Sugar,” takes “A Wrinkle In Time” and fills it with magic and color. The book, which has a female heroine and three female supporting characters was a rarity in the 60’s. L’Engle’s novel was shut down by many major publishing companies, because …
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