"A Wrinkle in TIme" directed by Ava DuVernay
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Hearing from folks that seen it that a wrinkle in Time that it was blah/ not good
Dr. Narcisse
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Dr. Narcisse
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Why did Ava choose to direct one of the most difficult books to turn into a film. 
I also think when translating a film like this its difficult to do so when managing all the other projects she works on.
These are just early reactions tho. Doesn't speak for all.
I also think when translating a film like this its difficult to do so when managing all the other projects she works on.
These are just early reactions tho. Doesn't speak for all.
loyola llothta
☭☭☭
using Sade and Demi Lovato in the same sentence. 
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
These ppl manusing Sade and Demi Lovato in the same sentence.
Poor Ava.
I wanted this movie to do well because I want Ava to win.
And I don't blame her for the racial makeup of the family in the film. I bet she wanted an all-black family but producers made her compromise with a mixed one. We have to remember she didn't have a Nate Moore in her corner like Coogler did.
This is who Ava got as an executive producer:
Douglas C. Merrifield, the same guy who produced 47 Ronin; the samurai movie where 90%-white Keanu Reeves was made the lead character.
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Clark Wayne
Superstar
Seems like it’s ok at best. Maybe it might do better internationally.
March might be full of duds though. This, Tomb Raider, Pacific Rim and maybe Ready Player One.
March might be full of duds though. This, Tomb Raider, Pacific Rim and maybe Ready Player One.
David_TheMan
Banned
Well it was a terrible mistake to take a known property and change the race of the characters just to be different. That is off putting to the people you were hoping to attract to the show who were established fans, the fans you wanted when you bought the property and kept the name the same.Poor Ava.
I wanted this movie to do well because I want Ava to win.
And I don't blame her for the racial makeup of the family in the film. I bet she wanted an all-black family but producers made her compromise with a mixed one. We have to remember she didn't have a Nate Moore in her corner like Coogler did.
Hollywood people really have to fight hard to get out of the bubble they are trapped in. respect the source material.
It's not about respecting the source material; it's about trying to straddle the fence and losing both sides in the process.
If she had been able to make the entire cast black and truly transform WiT into a black franchise, she would have gotten some of the same support from the black community as the people who are turning out in droves to support Black Panther despite not even being superhero movie fans. Purely because it demonstrates a revolutionary effort at increased black representation in blockbuster film.
But instead, the movie is not exciting black people because its leads are all white and biracial characters (Gugu, Pine, and Storm Reid). And it's still getting the same backlash from white people for not being entirely white as Fantastic 4 did.
So it's losing on both sides.
The problem was not changing the race; it was not going far enough. Ava's a black director, and she's woke: You know she's not settling for directing no 100% lily-white films to "respect the source material".
But the compromise she had to settle for to get this made is not going to get her the support she hoped for.
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can't wait. Loved the first one
I hope Pacific Rim does well because Boyega's not only starring in it, he's producing it as the first big investment of the production company he started with Femi Oguns.
So if it succeeds a black-owned film production company succeeds and can hopefully continue making big-budget black-led pictures.
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
The first qtr of the year was never the time for hits until like recently with deadpool and get out
Seeing that folks thought this book couldn’t be translated to film, looks like Ava wanted to flex thinking she could do it.
She probably didn’t think BP was that big of a challenge being that it would have been at least a moderate hit with it being part of the MCU.
She wanted the glory of doing the impossible.
She probably didn’t think BP was that big of a challenge being that it would have been at least a moderate hit with it being part of the MCU.
She wanted the glory of doing the impossible.
Some times the path to victory is the easiest path.