Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Ava DuVernay Being Courted to Direct Two Feature Films

Director Ava DuVernay attends the 22nd Annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on October 19, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
Director Ava DuVernay attends the 22nd Annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on October 19, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.

*“Selma” director Ava DuVernay is currently being courted by two separate Hollywood studios to helm their respective films.

According to Deadline.com writer Mike Fleming Jr., Disney has offered her “A Wrinkle In Time,” an adaptation of the 1963 Madeleine L’Engle fantasy classic novel that has a script by Oscar-winning “Frozen” writer and co-director Jennifer Lee; while Amblin is eying her for “Intelligent Life,” a sci-fi thriller scripted by Colin Trevorrow and his Jurassic World collaborator Derek Connolly.

“A Wrinkle In Time” is about a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract, which involves being transported to a fifth dimension with mysterious inhabited planets.

Amblin and Trevorrow have lobbied DuVernay for “Intelligent Life,” a fable about a UN worker in a department designed to represent mankind if there was ever contact with aliens, who falls for a mystery woman who turns out to be an alien.

Fleming Jr. writes:

I don’t know if DuVernay will do one, the other, or both of these. Thing is, I worry that the repetitive press narrative about diversity doesn’t give enough credit to what has propelled DuVernay, or Nate Parker, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Gary Gray, Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and others to success in the last 12 months. It’s hustle, betting on oneself and not waiting for a level playing field.

Read the entire column here.

DuVernay is currently at work on her TV series for OWN, titled “Queen Sugar.”

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