Some movies are content to announce their release dates with a dry press releases loaded down with corporate speak. Not so director Ava DuVernay and the cast and crew busy making A Wrinkle In Time for Disney. They've gone ahead and used the medium of the Mannequin Challenge to confirm an April 2018 slot for the movie.
Check it out below.
Using the current interwebs fad to make an announcement feels in keeping with Wrinkle, which has an eclectic cast and source material that plays with space and time. A Wrinkle In Time has Jennifer Lee adapting Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 children's tale, the start of her Time Quartet series of novels. The story follows the Murry family; especially teenager Meg (Storm Reid) and her genius 5-year-old brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), and Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe. Their scientist father has gone missing, but after the visit of a mysterious woman called Mrs. Whatsit, 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.
The likes of Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris Pine and Zach Galifianakis help fill out the cast. In the States, at least, we now know the movie will be out on 6 April, 2018, and we'd expect the UK release to be either day and date or close to it.