Chris Pine has signed on for A Wrinkle in Time. The story for this film adaptation comes from a popular children’s book by Madeleine L’Engle.
Empire Magazine reports that Pine, who will play the patriarch Mr. Murray, joins a cast that includes Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Oprah Winfrey, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Ava DuVernay will serve as the director of this movie.
Here’s more from Deadline: “A Wrinkle In Time involves a young girl whose government scientist father (aka Pine) has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract, which involves being transported to a fifth dimension with mysterious inhabited planets. She takes part in a search for her father and sees some incredible creatures along the way.” (via The A.V. Club)