I loved the book as a preteen, read it over and over. Its been awhile, but I still remember key moments, and they're in this trailer, so, YAY!!
So, here's the gist if you didn't get it from the trailer. Chris Pine's character discovers the Tesseract (not the Marvel one, this came first), which is basically folding space. Somehow, you do this with your mind. Although the movie might have him do it with a machine. He tests it out, and vanishes somewhere on the other end of the universe. Oprah's character is a shape-shifting alien that helps his daughter (black nerd girl) find him. In tow are nerd-girl's would-be boyfriend, and her little brother. An evil force is also up to nefarious shenanigans, but to even say what it is would spoil things. But, it does indeed involve the creepy robot suburb.
Really? Because things I remember from the book are waaay different than what we see in that trailer. Where's Fortinbras? Where's Meg beating the shit out of the kid?
Didn't they already do a TV movie of this back in the 1990s? Two things that I remember: 1) The creepiness of much of the book 2) The religious stuff abounding in it.
Your description was better than that trailer. The trailer turned me off the second I started hearing Oprah's voice.
Yeah thanks. IIRC one of the worst things about the 2003 TV film was that instead of "IT" being simply a giant disembodied they had "IT" in human form in the person of actor Kyle Secor (Homicide: Life on the Street). A Wrinkle In Time I think has been somewhat hard to put on screen because in the book, a substantial part of the dialogue and even events thanks to telepathy and other mental powers takes place inside peoples heads.
I'll probably watch it, but it doesn't trigger childhood memories of the book. I remember it being much darker, but that's probably just my interpretation. I wonder if Heinlein's Glory Road is the adult version? When are they going to do a movie of that? Happy Mediums are with me to today.
Trailer looked genuinely good before I knew what movie it was for. Only read the book once, remember precious little, but liked it and rooting for the movie to turn out well.
Saw the movie last night. Not bad but not as good as the book was of course. The ending was considerably altered and far weaker than the novel. Amy liked it though. Note, "A Wrinkle In Time" is a case of it being very difficult to do a live action version of a story where a lot of the important stuff takes place as internal monologues by the characters. Which is why you'll probably never see Keith Laumers excellent "Bolo" stories onscreen either as a great deal of the stories takes place inside the artificial intelligence minds of the giant combat vehicles.
Someone pointed out on FB that this is the first time that two black directors have films in the top two spots in theaters.
