Ava DuVernay Confirmed To Direct Disney's A WRINKLE IN TIME

A couple of weeks ago, word came out that Selma director Ava DuVernay was being courted to direct an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's Newberry Medal-winning book A Wrinkle in Time. Now Deadline reports that DuVernay has signed a deal with Disney to direct a script from Frozen co-writer and director Jennifer Lee, though it's unclear exactly when the project will go before cameras.

A Wrinkle in Time is about a young girl (and her friends) who go on a search for her missing father, a government scientist who was working on a top secret project involving an inter-dimensional tesseract.

At the time of the initial report, DuVernay was also in the mix to direct Intelligent Life, a sci-fi thriller from Jurassic World and Safety Not Guaranteed co-writers Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly that now has Lupita Nyong'o lined up to star. That film centers on a U.N. delegate tasked with being Earth's representative when humanity makes contact with alien life, only to fall in love with a mysterious woman who turns out to be an alien (Nyong'o). Deadline says that DuVernay is currently in negotiations to direct that movie as well, but there's no word on which one will end up shooting first.

Both of these sound like excellent fits for the director, and I'm excited that a female filmmaker is being given a chance to helm two relatively big-budget studio projects like these. I can't wait to see what she does with them.