I accidently caught a couple minutes of the ABC tv movie “A Wrinkle in Time“. I don’t know if it was just bad casting or the product of reading the book so often when I was younger, but my reaction was “Yikes, that isn’t Meg! No, that isn’t Calvin! No way is that Charles Wallace…Alfre Woodard as Mrs. Whatsit is cool.”
I really couldn’t watch it. I wonder if some books shouldn’t be adapted for screen. Then again, I would probably have had major doubts about Lord of the Rings if I hadn’t been previously convinced of the coolness of Peter Jackson, and those movies turned out ok.
I missed part of the begining (feeding the dogs), but I watched everything from just before Mrs. Whatstit’s entrance to the end. They did an okay job with setting up the scenes and getting across the message of the book, but the casting, as you mentioned, was not quite on. Then again, my expectations were already low, considering that it’s a Disney movie made for TV and shown on ABC on a Monday night. Not exactly the level of work that was put into Lord of the Rings.
That’s true. If you have more money you could probably afford a better casting agent/actors
i luv wrinkle in time! i luv gregory smith