Casting is already underway withOprah Winfrey,Reese Witherspoon,Mindy Kaling, and the young talentStorm Reidon board.
I cant talk a lot about it.
Whatever filmmaker you wanna name.
Ill name my good friendJ.J.
Dont we want different kinds of films?
Dont we wanna see them from different angles?"
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Still, she says shes excited to see a superhero story as told byCreeddirectorRyan Coogler.
“I love the fact that Ryan Cooglers doingBlack Panther.
I wanna see one of those Marvel movies from his mind.
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And so its just about getting more kinds, colors, and creeds of people out there.
You get better stories.
Not better stories more.”
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They were just on top of each other.
I thought they were gonna be staggered…I was attached to them both at the same time.
So, one had to be chosen because I cant split myself in half.
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So, yeah, I choseWrinkle.
Its a great script by Colin Trevorrow [forIntelligent Life]."
What ultimately drew her to the story ofA Wrinkle in Timewere the cinematic possibilities of the story.
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Kids fly and to ask Disney, ‘Could these be brown kids?’
and for them to say yes I was like, ‘Lets do it.’
There are creatures, there are different planets.
To think about, ‘Wow, I could design those planets, what those planets look like.
I get to do that?’
That stuff is rare air, and so all that stuff immediately I was like, ‘Im in.
Im so in.’
And its fun every single day."
Look for my full interview with DuVernay on Collider soon, as well as our review of13thby Chris Cabin.
