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Wrinkle in Time to be a Disney Movie!

Posted by Ashley McChesney on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 @ 09:20 AM
  
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Jeff Stockwell has been hired to adapt author Madeleine L'Engle's classic time-travel story, "A Wrinkle in Time," for Cary Granat and his new Bedrock Studios.

Granat has a relationship with Disney from when his Walden Media produced such films for the studio as the "Chronicles of Narnia" series and "Bridge to Terabithia," co-written by Stockwell. L'Engle wrote a handful of follow-up novels to "Wrinkle," now called the Time Quintet, and Disney's Rich Ross is seeking more franchise material in the mold of the female-driven success of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland." 

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This book was one of my favorites growing up, very excited the guy responsible for Narnia will be taking charge of it!

 

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A long time ago, I would have rejoiced over this bit of news, as Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet include two of my favorite books of all times... 
 
 
 
However, the fact that Disney is in charge of the whole affair makes me downright scared. Knowing the studio is desperate for anything fantasy-related, I'm almost certain that they're going to turn this distinct series into yet another Lord of the Rings clone. And I've had it with those types of films. Alice in Wonderland had the potential to being something interesting and more akin to Carroll's original book, but Disney blew it and turned it into (yet) another battle-climatic epic, sacrificing Tim Burton's brains for the worn-out fantasy mold that had been overused too often.  
 
 
 
Apart from this, I'm worried that all the religious undertones in the Time Quartet (especially apparent in "Many Waters," and these issues really made this series distinct from run-of-the-mill sci-fi) will be erased or greatly downplayed, as it was in the Narnia movies and even The Golden Compass.  
 
 
 
If Disney really wants to make their mark, they should quit trying to be something they're not (i.e. Peter Jackson) and start being something original.
Posted @ Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:35 PM by Ken
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