A Wrinkle In Time Ripples Change For Young Girls
JaMonet Rice
JaMonet Rice
March is known for a lot of things: Spring, St. Patrick’s Day, and of course Women’s History Month. People all over are doing whatever they can to commemorate and celebrate what women did and more importantly what they will do. Barbie will be releasing dolls from important women in history like Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart, and Katherine Johnson. But the biggest celebrations are coming from the big screen. This Friday marks the debut of the highly anticipated movie, A Wrinkle In Time. starring Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Gugu Mbatha- Raw, Chris Pine, Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, and the sensational Oprah Winfrey.
The movie, which is based on the popular book written by Madeleine L’Engle in 1962, follows a young girl named Meg Murry who with the help of three astral travelers: Mrs.Who, Mrs.Which, and Mrs.Whatsit, her brother and friend in the hope of finding and rescuing her father. When L’Engle tried to get A Wrinkle In Time published many people shot it down saying it was too confusing, un-Christian like, (ironic because she was Christian) and publishers even went as far as saying that people would not bet on a female protagonist. Luckily L’Engle was able to get it published and to this day, it has sold 10 million copies worldwide. The film is being directed by Oscar nominated director Ava Duvernay, who made history by being the first African-American women to direct a movie with a budget of over 100 million dollars.
If you thought it was surprising that Disney called Duvernay, so was she. “Women directors, we’re not getting people just saying ‘Hey let's talk about this sci-fi epic,” Duvernay says. Originally she was not going to direct the movie when Disney offered it to her in 2016, (she hadn't read the book at that point time) until Tendo Nagenda, a Disney executive pushed her to do it, saying to her “imagine the worlds you could create.” Eventually Duvernay agreed to the project with some stipulations, the main one being that Meg Murry had to be Black. She hoped that the movie would serve as a love letter to our girls.
A Wrinkle In Time hits theaters Friday, March 9th, so do not miss it.
The movie, which is based on the popular book written by Madeleine L’Engle in 1962, follows a young girl named Meg Murry who with the help of three astral travelers: Mrs.Who, Mrs.Which, and Mrs.Whatsit, her brother and friend in the hope of finding and rescuing her father. When L’Engle tried to get A Wrinkle In Time published many people shot it down saying it was too confusing, un-Christian like, (ironic because she was Christian) and publishers even went as far as saying that people would not bet on a female protagonist. Luckily L’Engle was able to get it published and to this day, it has sold 10 million copies worldwide. The film is being directed by Oscar nominated director Ava Duvernay, who made history by being the first African-American women to direct a movie with a budget of over 100 million dollars.
If you thought it was surprising that Disney called Duvernay, so was she. “Women directors, we’re not getting people just saying ‘Hey let's talk about this sci-fi epic,” Duvernay says. Originally she was not going to direct the movie when Disney offered it to her in 2016, (she hadn't read the book at that point time) until Tendo Nagenda, a Disney executive pushed her to do it, saying to her “imagine the worlds you could create.” Eventually Duvernay agreed to the project with some stipulations, the main one being that Meg Murry had to be Black. She hoped that the movie would serve as a love letter to our girls.
A Wrinkle In Time hits theaters Friday, March 9th, so do not miss it.