As she puts together what she needs to make her next movie, A Wrinkle In Time, Ava DuVernay has already locked in Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling. And she has now found one of the young leads for the film in 12 Years A Slave's Storm Reid.
Frozen's Jennifer Lee adapted the script from Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 tome. The story follows the Murry family; especially teenager Meg (Reid) and her genius 5-year-old brother Charles Wallace, and Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe. Their scientist father has gone missing, but after the visit of a mysterious old lady called Mrs. Whatsit (Witherspoon), they learn that their father's research may have been more successful than they guessed and that he may have travelled in space and time. The kids end up following his footsteps to a planet called Camazotz, ruled by a giant evil brain called The Black Thing.
Winfrey is set to be Mrs. Which, while Kaling is on as Mrs. Who. DuVernay has been scouting locations already and is looking to find more cast for the movie, which Disney is backing.
Reid has also worked on sci-fi drama Sleight and Judy Greer's directorial debut, indie drama A Happening of Monumental Proportions.