The time puzzle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title The time puzzle
Original title A Wrinkle in Time
A-wrinkle-in-time-59ecf0b243faa.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ava DuVernay
script Jennifer Lee
production Catherine Hand
Jim Whitaker
music Ramin Djawadi
camera Tobias A. Schliessler
cut Spencer Averick
occupation

The time puzzle (original title: A Wrinkle in Time ) is an adventure film by Ava DuVernay , which was released in US cinemas on March 9, 2018 and in German cinemas on April 5, 2018. The film is based on the novel Die Zeitfalte (new edition: The Time Puzzle ) by Madeleine L'Engle and was produced by Walt Disney Pictures .

action

The teenage Meg Murry is considered strange at school. Meg suffers from low self-esteem, and her little brother Charles Wallace, a highly intelligent child prodigy, is also considered a strange outsider. Your parents are both physicists . Meg has been traumatized since her father, Dr. Alex Murry disappeared four years ago after an experiment that was supposed to enable traveling through the universe without machines, the so-called Tessern, under mysterious circumstances.

On a dark and stormy night, the family receives an unexpected visit from a mysterious and eccentric young woman who introduces herself as the heavenly guardian Mrs. Whatsit. She is accompanied by Mrs. Who, who speaks by quoting Shakespeare , Khalil Gibran, and OutKast , and the older Mrs. Which. Mrs. Which is the oldest and wisest of the three women. They tell them about the whereabouts of the father and explain to the children where he has disappeared after having overcome the boundaries of space and time . Women also have the power to use a tesseract. The fifth-dimensional force enables people to travel intergalactically in a very short time. Under the leadership of the three women, they are to fight against the dark forces that rule the universe, where they also hope to find the missing father.

Accompanied by their classmate Calvin O'Keefe, Meg and her brother Charles Wallace embark on a journey through the magical fold to different regions of the universe. You first land on a planet with a lush, hilly landscape characterized by unreal colors. They are later taken to a mountain cave where an oracle known as the Happy Medium gives them another important clue for their mission. Eventually the children get to Camazotz, a planet whose inhabitants are controlled by a single computer-like brain called IT. There they find the father after a few adventures, but Meg's brother is now dominated by IT. Meg overcomes IT with the power of love and she, Charles Wallace, her father and Calvin return to earth.

production

Literary template and staff

The film is based on a novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle from 1962, which was first translated into German in 1968 by Martha Johanna Hofmann under the title Spiralnebel 101. L'Engle told in three more volumes of the adventures of the Murry family, who are at the center of the story. The American author was born to a pianist and a foreign correspondent and grew up in the USA and Europe. She worked as an actress before devoting herself entirely to writing.

In October 2010 it was announced that Walt Disney Pictures had secured the film rights for L'Engles' novel and wanted to turn it into a real-life film. On August 5, 2014, Jennifer Lee was announced as the scriptwriter, continuing the work of Jeff Stockwell , who had created an initial draft. On February 8, 2016, it was announced that Ava DuVernay had been offered to direct. She is the first black woman to be offered a live action with a production budget of over $ 100 million.

occupation

On July 26, 2016, Variety reported that Oprah Winfrey is being discussed for the role of Mrs. Which, playing one of the three Mrs. Ws who lead the children on their way in the film. On September 7, 2016, the cast of the two missing Mrs. Ws with Reese Witherspoon as the heavenly being Mrs. Whatsit and with Mindy Kaling as the further supernatural being Mrs. Who was known. On September 13, 2016, it was announced that Storm Reid had received the role of Meg Murry, the daughter of Dr. Alex Murry. In October 2016, it was announced that Chris Pine would take on the role and Gugu Mbatha-Raw would play his wife Kate. On November 1, 2016, Zach Galifianakis became The Happy Medium, André Holland as Rector Jenkins, Deric McCabe as Meg's brother Charles Wallace and Levi Miller as Calvin, the siblings best friend, but also Bellamy Young , Rowan Blanchard and Will McCormack as others Actor confirmed.

Filming and visual effects

In order to make the planets traveled by the children in the film look alien, recordings, such as here at Lake Pukaki in front of the backdrop of Mount Cook on New Zealand's South Island, were digitally post-processed

Tobias A. Schliessler acted as cameraman . Filming began in Los Angeles in early November 2016. The director wanted to shoot the film in West Adams, a neighborhood that is important for African American people . However, Meg's family home was taken in neighboring Jefferson Park . Mrs. Who's house is also in Jefferson Park. Crenshaw High School was the setting for their school .

In November and December 2016 the film was shot in Eureka , California , including Sequoia Park, and in other, mostly forested areas in Humboldt County , such as Patrick's Point State Park. Other locations in California were the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and the Air Force Base in San Pedro , where recordings for the Camazotz Suburbs were made. Filming in California ended in early December 2016.

Further exterior shots were taken in Wanaka and at Lake Pukaki in Mount Cook National Park . For two weeks at the end of February 2017, recordings were made in Otago in New Zealand, including in the Hunter Valley near Lake Hawea. The actors were greeted there by Maori with the Powhiri welcome ceremony and the Karakia spells recited .

The locations, which are very different from a scenic point of view, were chosen to provide a backdrop to the forested planet Camazotz and other worlds that the children visit in the film. Alison A. Taylor, the supervising location manager, said the idea was to create an alien feel. The recordings of the bizarre landscape formation in New Zealand were digitally post-processed for this purpose in order to transform them in the film into the utopian planet Uriel.

Film music and soundtrack

The film music was composed by the German-Iranian Ramin Djawadi . A soundtrack with 22 tracks was released on March 9, 2018 by Walt Disney Records as a download and on March 30, 2018 on CD. The recording was made under Djawadi's direction in Los Angeles together with a 71-piece orchestra, a choir consisting of 29 people and a further choir consisting of 24 children.

In February 2018, it was announced that a number of other artists had contributed songs to the film, such as Sade the song Flower of the Universe , DJ Khaled and Demi Lovato the end-credits song I Believe and Sia her new song Magic . Other songs are by Kehlani , the sisters Chloe x Halle and Free Style Fellowship . The soundtrack entered the US soundtrack album charts at number 10 on March 23, 2018.

Marketing and Publishing

In July 2017, a first trailer for the film was released, which was accompanied by a cover version of the song Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics , sung by DRESAGE and produced by Mark Hadley . In December 2017, actresses Oprah Winfrey , Reese Witherspoon , Mindy Kaling and Storm Reid graced the cover of Time Magazine's 25/2017 issue . In January 2018, a featurette for the film was released, which gives a look behind the scenes and lets the actors and the director have their say.

The film premiered on February 26, 2018 at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. The film was released in US cinemas on March 9, 2018 and in German cinemas on April 5, 2018. The theatrical release in Switzerland was canceled in mid-March 2018, so the three language versions of the film - German, French and Italian - could only be viewed in theaters in neighboring countries. The reason is assumed to be the low box office income and reception in the first week of the film in the USA.

reception

Reviews

Rolling Stone's David Fear says every generation gets the Neverending Story they deserve, and this movie could be ours.

Stephen Whitty of the New York Daily News says that the adaptation of the popular children's classic by director Ava DuVernay was done with the best of intentions and great and ethnically mixed and full of positive messages, but the film is just not much fun.

Deadline.com's Pete Hammond remind Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which, Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Who and Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, who accompany Meg into the unknown, of the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz , even if he believes that 80 years from now people won't talk about the film the way they do today about the classic from 1939 with Judy Garland in the lead role. Despite a budget of more than 100 million US dollars and a lot of CGI gimmicks, the film fails to exert magic, according to Hammond.

In his review, Peter Debruge from Variety points in particular to the huge holes in the plot of the film, to the fact that it does not build up an emotional bond and that its individual parts are not put together into a coherent whole.

Antje Wessels describes the film as “a candy-colored effect orgy with exhausting characters and cheap fortune cookie wisdom.” How incredibly hard it is tried here to put a Disney-suitable wisdom of the brand “Believe in yourself, then you can do anything!” After the next , is not only overly striking, but also gets really annoying over time, says Wessels. In the end, the fatal blow was the story itself, especially because the characters often acted illogically and the script used hackneyed clichés.

Gross profit

The worldwide income of the film from theatrical screenings so far amounts to 124.5 million US dollars and is therefore only in the range of the production costs, which are said to have been between 100 and 130 million US dollars.

Awards

People's Choice Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Family Film of the Year

Web links

Commons : The time puzzle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Time Puzzle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 177441 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b A Wrinkle in Time. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ DNB 457404647
  4. ↑ A Wrinkle in Time In: buchhandlung-lohr.de. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Sean O'Connell: A Wrinkle In Time Has Found Its Lead. CinemaBlend, September 2016, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  6. ^ Nigel M. Smith: Ava DuVernay becomes first woman of color to direct a $ 100m film . In: The Guardian . August 4, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 30, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Justin Kroll: Oprah Winfrey Joins Ava Duvernay's 'A Wrinkle in Time' adaptation . In: Variety . July 26, 2016 ( variety.com [accessed July 30, 2017]).
  8. ^ Reese Witherspoon confirmed for A Wrinkle In Time. Female First, September 14, 2016, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Nina Becker: "A Wrinkle In Time": Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon for the Disney project by "Frozen" author Jennifer Lee in conversation. Film releases, September 8, 2016, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Rising Actress Storm Reid Nabs Starring Role in Ava DuVernay's 'A Wrinkle in Time' (Exclusive) . In: The Hollywood Reporter . ( hollywoodreporter.com [accessed July 30, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Gugu Mbatha-Raw And Chris Pine Join A Wrinkle In Time. In: Hidden Remote. October 25, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Justin Kroll: Zach Galifianakis, Andre Holland, and 'Pan' Star Levi Miller Join 'A Wrinkle in Time' . In: Variety . November 1, 2016 ( variety.com [accessed July 30, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Patrick Hipes: 'A Wrinkle In Time' Adds Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, André Holland & More To Round Out Cast - Update . In: Deadline . November 3, 2016 ( deadline.com [accessed July 30, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Chris Eggertsen, How 'A Wrinkle in Time's' LA locations reflect the film's inclusive spirit , LA Curbed, March 19, 2018.
  15. ↑ 'A Wrinkle In Time' teaser trailer released In: times-standard.com, July 15, 2017.
  16. ↑ a b Film production in town: 'A Wrinkle in Time' director's Instagram indicates filming in Eureka . ( times-standard.com [accessed July 30, 2017]). Film production in town: 'A Wrinkle in Time' director's Instagram indicates filming in Eureka ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.times-standard.com
  17. ↑ Andrew Goff: Disney's 'A Wrinkle in Time' Filming in Eureka This Week In: lostcoastoutpost.com, November 28, 2016.
  18. ↑ a b Ruth Schneider: A Wrinkle in Time In: filmhumboldt.org, December 19, 2016.
  19. ↑ a b c d Ra Moon: Where was 'A Wrinkle in Time' filmed? In: atlasofwonders.com. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
  20. ↑ Christopher Marc: 'Han Solo' aka 'Red Cup' Has Started Casting Supporting Roles and Extras. In: Omega Underground. December 24, 2016, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Todd Plummer: The New Zealand Town Where Oprah Filmed 'A Wrinkle in Time' Should Be Next on Your Travel Wish List In: vogue.com, January 10, 2018.
  22. ^ A Wrinkle in Time cast and crew welcomed to Lake Hawea with powhiri, love it here. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  23. ^ Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon film A Wrinkle In Time in NZ . In: Mail Online . ( dailymail.co.uk [accessed July 30, 2017]).
  24. ↑ Ruth Schneider: 'Postcard of Humboldt County': 'Wrinkle in Time' brings local beauty to big screen In: times-standard.com, December 19, 2016.
  25. ↑ Ramin Djawadi to Score Ava DuVernay's 'A Wrinkle in Time' In: filmmusicreporter.com, September 25, 2017.
  26. ↑ Walt Disney Records to Release 'A Wrinkle in Time' Soundtrack In: filmmusicreporter.com, January 29, 2018.
  27. ↑ a b Ava DuVernay's 'A Wrinkle in Time' to Feature Original Songs by Sade, Sia, DJ Khaled & Demi Lovato In: filmmusicreporter.com, February 20, 2018.
  28. ↑ 'A Wrinkle in Time' soundtrack details In: filmmusicreporter.com, February 21, 2018.
  29. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/charts/soundtracks
  30. ↑ Annemarie Havran: 'A Wrinkle In Time': Brightly colored first trailer for the fantasy adventure with Chris Pine In: filmstarts.de, July 15, 2017.
  31. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJ0bR6vwHk&ab_channel=jhona%2F%2FtiniuberA
  32. ↑ Allie Gemmill: The Song In The 'Wrinkle In Time' Trailer Sets The Tone For Meg's Adventure Ahead In: bustle.com, July 15, 2017.
  33. ↑ 'Celestial beings': Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling cover Time Magazine to promote fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time In: dailymail.co.uk, December 19, 2017.
  34. ↑ Hannes Könitzer: A Wrinkle in Time: New featurette for the Disney adventure film In: robots-and-dragons.de, January 16, 2018.
  35. ↑ Ricardo Lopez: Ava DuVernay: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Is 'A Metaphor for What We Can All Do in Our Lives' In: Variety, February 27, 2018.
  36. ↑ Start dates in Germany. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  37. ↑ Disney film "A Wrinkle in Time" will not hit Swiss cinemas. In: outnow.ch. March 16, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018.
  38. ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/a-wrinkle-in-time-movie-review-w517106
  39. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/wrinkle-time-review-oprah-no-fun-article-1.3860645
  40. ↑ http://deadline.com/2018/03/a-wrinkle-in-time-review-oprahwinfrey-mindy-kaling-ava-duvernay-disney-1202315225/
  41. ↑ http://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/a-wrinkle-in-time-review-disney-ava-duvernay-1202720497/
  42. ↑ https://wessels-filmkritik.com/2018/03/26/das-zeitraetsel/#more-23620
  43. ^ A Wrinkle in Time In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  44. ↑ Johnni Macke: People's Choice Awards 2018 Winners: The Complete List. In: eonline.com, November 11, 2018.