Gugu Mbatha-Raw Lands Role in the A Wrinkle in Time Movie

By Maryann Yin 

A Wrinkle in TimeGugu Mbatha-Raw has come on board for A Wrinkle in Time. The story in this film adaptation will be based on a children’s book by Madeleine L’Engle.

Here’s more from Variety: “A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in L’Engle’s Time Quartet series, which includes A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Mbatha-Raw would play the role of Dr. Murry — Meg and Charles Wallace’s mother. She is a scientist who, with Meg’s father, comes up with the notion of the wrinkle in time.”

According to Deadline, Mbatha-Raw joins a cast that includes Storm ReidReese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, and Oprah Winfrey. The movie studio has not announced the theatrical release date yet. (via Vulture)