Zach Galifianakis has joined Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” the upcoming film based on the classic children’s novel, Disney announced on Tuesday.
André Holland (“Moonlight,” “Selma”) has also been cast as Principal Jenkins, while Levi Miller (“Pan”) will play Calvin and Deric McCabe is Charles Wallace.
Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine and Gugu Mbatha-Raw have already joined the project, along with young actress Storm Reid.
Reid will play the book’s famed main character, a high school-aged girl named Meg Murry who has been struggling ever since her scientist dad (Pine) went missing.
Meg finds herself transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother, Charles Wallace, and her friend, Calvin O’Keefe, to find her father and rescue him from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet.
They are aided in their journey by Mrs. Whatsit (Witherspoon), Mrs. Who (Kaling) and Mrs. Which (Winfrey).
Pine stars as Mr. Murray, also the husband to Mbatha-Raw’s character, Dr. Kate Murray.
Galifianakis will play a character named Happy Medium, who can peer through time and space.
DuVernay is hoping to break ground with “A Wrinkle in Time” by making a big tentpole movie with a diverse cast, TheWrap has previously learned.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the director called it “a cool, quirky tale of an imperfect girl on an otherworldly expedition that has been praised and banned, dissected and celebrated the world over for more than 50 years.”
Filming is scheduled for the end of November in the Los Angeles area. Two weeks of filming in New Zealand is also scheduled.
Jennifer Lee (“Frozen”) is writing the script, which is based on Madeleine L’Engle’s book series “Time Quartet.”
'The Jungle Book' and 16 Other Astonishing CGI-Fueled Movies (Photos)
Though technically stretching the definition of "live action," Disney's new "Jungle Book" film stars a real human boy as Mowgli and a whole bunch of computer generated talking animals that you probably wouldn't realize were not real if nobody told you.
"Ex Machina" won the Oscar for visual effects on a $15 million budget. I mean, come on.
We all know about "Avatar," the recently dethroned box office king which had CGI cat people and a CGI jungle that looked so real that some people got depressed because they would never actually be able to go there.
I found out that the tiger in "Life of Pi" was a computer creation after I watched the movie. I'm still not quite sure I believe it.
Obviously we all inherently knew that a child wearing an elderly version of Brad Pitt's face in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was not a real thing. But good lord.
Director Peter Jackson and actor Andy Serkis revolutionized performance capture in film with Gollum in the latter two "Lord of the Rings" movies. Even more than a decade later Gollum is still one of the best digital performances we've seen.
It might look unremarkable now, but in 1999 and for several years after, that first time we saw "bullet time" in "The Matrix" was a shocking thing.
"The Revenant" may be a tough movie to sit through, but it's hard not to admire the extended sequence in which Leonardo DiCaprio is mauled by a CGI bear.
Andy Serkis lent his talents to the role of Caesar (pictured) in the new "Planet of the Apes" series.
Another lowish-budget affair for something with this level of visual effects, "District 9" utilized a sort of digital prosthetic to create the prawn aliens rather than practical makeup.
The first two "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels were covered in CGI, but no part of them was more impressive than Davey Jones and his crew.
Even today the dinos in "Jurassic Park" look pretty great. For 1993, they're mindshattering.
It's basically impossible to convincingly pull off a metallic silver look with computer effects, and "Terminator 2" didn't quite do it. But that film's T-1000 remains one of the best attempts we've seen even after 25 years.
The "Transformers" demonstrate just how much we take ridiculously good CGI for granted these days. It's fun to scoff at the dumbness and Michael Bay's rather over-the-top sensibilities. But these robots still deserve praise for how shockingly awesome they look.
Dishonorable mention: Not all astonishing CGI is astonishing in the good way. Anakin surfing on the back of this shaak is one of those other ones that we can never forget no matter how hard we try.
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Disney’s live-action ”Jungle Book“ film is one of many movies in the past couple of decades to blow us away with shocking VFX work
Though technically stretching the definition of "live action," Disney's new "Jungle Book" film stars a real human boy as Mowgli and a whole bunch of computer generated talking animals that you probably wouldn't realize were not real if nobody told you.
