# A Wrinkle in Time trailer released, and it looks AWESOME!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238 "2017-11-21T01:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/1 "2017-11-21T01:07:40Z")
I need this movie like I need air. Husband hasn't read the book, so I'm having him do so. Lucky bastard gets to experience it for the first time! Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/2 "2017-11-21T01:48:15Z")
Earlier [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20352425) with a bit of discussion :). ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/3 "2017-11-21T01:49:55Z")
I surely hope it is better than[this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290382/)version… Even [L’Engle](http://www.newsweek.com/i-dare-you-127959) herself thought it sucked. That being it comes out right before my birthday… hmm. (Let us know what Hubby thought of the book) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/4 "2017-11-21T01:55:17Z")
This is a new trailer, though. My reaction to the first trailer was “cautiously optimistic”, and there’s nothing in this trailer yet that moves the needle off of that one way or the other. It’s a really easy story to get wrong, but if they do get it right, it could be amazing. I really hope it’s amazing, as that book probably had more of an influence than any other on the person I became. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/5 "2017-11-21T02:49:06Z")
I read the books back in grade school. this might be promising, but I usually strongly dislike movies and TV shows where kids/teenagers are significant characters. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/6 "2017-11-21T04:58:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > This is a new trailer, though. Well, this is a new trailer: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ) The one in the OP is still the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/7 "2017-11-21T06:30:37Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > Well, this is a new trailer: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ) > > The one in the OP is still the first one. After watching the link you shared I have to say I’m very optimistic about this film. It seems likely to appeal to the tween/YA audience. Maybe somewhat to millennials. I consider that a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/8 "2017-11-21T14:33:47Z")
it’s looks good - let’s hope! ---
**Author:** ![MartyMo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@MartyMo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MartyMo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/9 "2017-11-21T15:49:22Z")
I read the books , but I usually strongly like movies and TV shows where kids/teenagers are significant characters) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/10 "2017-11-22T09:18:57Z")
I see a whole lot of people concerned with all the stuff they say isn’t from the book in the trailer. I myself don’t see it. The “hero” concept on Meg does worry me, though. The whole point is that she’s not a hero. It worries me they are going the direction of the TV movie, which had Meg rescue all of Camazotz at the end. I also find it weird how little Charles Wallace there seems to be in the trailers. He’s kinda important. Yet I don’t believe we’ve heard him speak. ---
**Author:** ![chaika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chaika/32/405_2.png) [@chaika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaika)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/11 "2017-11-22T14:08:36Z")
I happened to see the trailer at the movies the other day. I will certainly watch the film when it comes out but with a “hope for the best, expect the worst” sort of attitude. The book seems tailor-made for a film adaptation, though that in itself rarely seems to produce good films. Like a PP, I’m a bit surprised that Charles Wallace barely appears in the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/12 "2017-11-22T15:35:53Z")
Visually it looks stunning, but I’ve still got the concerns about the “Be a warrior” stuff. The whole freakin’ _point_ is that…um… …ok, just in case, book spoilers here Meg doesn’t need to be a “warrior”. Her mission to rescue Charles Wallace is to simply love him because only love is powerful enough to break the hold of the Dark Thing. There’s even a comment that if Meg had been able to, she could have “saved” (or destroyed) IT if she could love IT. The “warrior” comments are substantially troubling. Everything else\* looks so damned good though that I’m still in the “cautiously optimistic” camp. \*Except Mr. Jenkins. I don’t care about race changing or whatever, but the actor they got to play him looked downright dapper. Mr. Jenkins is slightly unkempt (badly shaved, dandruff, etc) and this is a plot point for book two (the best of the five, IMO. 😉 ) Minor quibble but it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/13 "2017-11-22T17:29:50Z")
I’ll admit I’m a little worried. Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling seems like possible stunt casting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/14 "2017-11-22T19:42:06Z")
The “warrior” language is in the book, coupled with the point that the real warriors in the fight against darkness aren’t always the people you’d think. They can’t fit that much nuance into a trailer, but hopefully it is in the movie. And I’m guessing that Oprah’s presence in the cast means that she fronted a significant amount of the production costs. I think that this being (at least partly) a vanity project for her might actually bode well: If she just wants her name in lights, then she’s going to focus more on making good art than on profitability. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/15 "2018-03-11T19:42:24Z")
I saw it. It’s okay, a little cheap looking and if actually prefer it to be longer to be able to paint some of psychological depths of the characters’ struggles more effectively. As it is, these were handled pretty expositionally, unfortunately. Witherspoon was pretty badly miscast. Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/16 "2018-03-12T03:10:09Z")
I saw it today, and I’ve read the book and went with a friend who hadn’t, and we both enjoyed the movie but she was definitely confused at points. I liked it, but didn’t love it, but I don’t know what I would have changed to make it better, and I’m fairly sure if I had seen it when I was around 12 years old it would have become my favorite movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/17 "2018-03-12T04:41:26Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I saw it today, and I’ve read the book and went with a friend who hadn’t, and we both enjoyed the movie but she was definitely confused at points. I liked it, but didn’t love it, but I don’t know what I would have changed to make it better, and I’m fairly sure if I had seen it when I was around 12 years old it would have become my favorite movie ever. That seems to be the consensus so far. Kids are loving it. Parents are underwhelmed and confused. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/18 "2018-03-12T11:08:11Z")
Honestly, if parents weren’t at least a little bit confused, I’d take that as a troubling sign. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/19 "2018-03-12T11:33:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Honestly, if parents weren’t at least a little bit confused, I’d take that as a troubling sign. why? this is based on a book which was published in 1962 (14 years before I was born.) I read the books up through _Many Waters_, and am old enough to have kids in their teens or 20s. So why would I be “confused” by this film (other than wondering why it’s so bad?) ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238/20 "2018-03-12T13:31:44Z")
It wasn’t bad… just a bit… plodding? Slow? The kids were amazing, the Witches were weird (and not exactly in a good way) the mom was sadly ignored (same in the book) dad never seemed particularly imperiled, and the whole Camazotz thing left me seriously underwhelmed. But my god those kids were well cast. I think the production concept was ‘glitter. no, even MOOOORE glitter’ I agree with whoever said this would have been their favorite movie as a kid. It’s like an alternate Narnia; I loved that BBC version with my entire heart, even tho when I watch it now it’s like - hooo boy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-wrinkle-in-time-trailer-released-and-it-looks-awesome/802238.md?page=2)