The Sword and Laser discussion

First teaser trailer. Excellent cast. Have loved Mindy Kaling since her days doing The Office.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E4U3TeY...

That trailer was pretty good. I want so badly for this to be awesome. But I've totally been burned before.

Looks good

Wow! That looks great! WIT is one of my favorite, and formative, stories.

Looks interesting. This is one book I missed as a kid, so I'll have to rectify that before next March.

Trike wrote: "Looks interesting. This is one book I missed as a kid, so I'll have to rectify that before next March."

My guess is that you'll enjoy it, Trike. While there are multiple books considered to be part of the series, I first encountered them as a trilogy: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

There's a fourth, featuring the twins, in the hardcover collection I bought some years back. But realistically, A Wrinkle in Time is the juggernaut of the collection, and the next two good followups.

Was about to post this. I quite liked the trailer except for Chris Pine part (he is everywhere! Captain Kirk! Steve Trevor! Haha). I also hope the full movie is not overly stylistic (somehow I was reminded of the Emerald City series) and stay true to the book.

Ava DuVernay rejected the offer to direct Black Panther but Disney still wants her.

Silvana wrote: "Was about to post this. I quite liked the trailer except for Chris Pine part (he is everywhere! Captain Kirk! Steve Trevor! Haha). I also hope the full movie is not overly stylistic (somehow I was ..."

I assume they went with Pine because Chrisses Pratt, Hemsworth and Evans were all otherwise occupied?

Joseph wrote: "Silvana wrote: "Was about to post this. I quite liked the trailer except for Chris Pine part (he is everywhere! Captain Kirk! Steve Trevor! Haha). I also hope the full movie is not overly stylistic..."

lol!

This looks so good, I've started a FB book club for people who missed this book in their youth or who, like me, recall it only vaguely. I've dubbed it "I Didn't Have Time Before I got Wrinkles," and we are all very excited about the trailer!

My 5th grade teacher very much loved this book, and tried to get our class interested in it. I'm pretty sure she showed us a film strip version of this with a full cast audio recording? But it might of been something on video. I just know it did not sit well with me. I had (still do to a much smaller degree) a thing against trippy 70's psychedelic type things and this was way too much in that realm. This was the same problem I had with the early 80's "Doctor Who", it freaked me the hell out. I still get quivers when I hear that version of the theme music.

Where with the Doctor I've given the more recent series a shot and enjoyed them, I've never gone back and revisited this property. The new movie still looks to have some of that original vibe, I wounder if the book would sit well with me or not?

I'm also not saying this is an OK thing, but in my 1987 5th grade memory, I remember associating this with being a "girls" book, not a book I should be into. I don't know if that was because the lead character is a girl, or if it was because the teacher that pushed it was a woman, or if it was because it dealt with more soft then hard science fiction. It's just a memory I have of that property.

But 30 year older me is all for cool things in the genre, and I truly hope this movie lives up to the trailer.

Edit: According to Wikipedia, the first audio adaptation of this book was 1994, and there was no video adaptation before then. So, I'm not sure what I remember from 1987, but I'd swear it was at least a film strip with audio narration and sound effects. I've also been proven on this website to have a very poor memory of things less then 10 years old, let alone 30 years, so take this all with a grain of salt.

Oh, I found it. http://www.worldcat.org/title/wrinkle... Yah, 1974 I'm guessing that would be the trippy version I remember. For once my memory held up.

^ I wanted to say this wasn't a 70s book but rather from the 1950s. Of course in the Internet age we can check everything, so I did. First published in 1962. I would say it still has a 1950s sensibility with the anti-communism, or at least anti-police state message, plus the generic pro-faith message.

Both seem to be missing in the movie, and the anti-communism has been replaced with a slam on suburbia. I'm likely to give this movie a miss. The books - at least the first trilogy - are still definitely worth the read. They are comparable to the first few Narnia books in theme and age range.

Extended trailer. Includes the first one, starts with trailer 2:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DVu1uFP...

The movie looks like a lot of fun. The people who made the trailer also had some fun. They lifted a few tropes from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOdj...