"Selma" director Ava DuVernay is set to direct Disney's film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time," according to Variety. DuVernay will team up with "Frozen" co-writer and co-director, Jennifer Lee, who will pen the film's screenplay.
"A Wrinkle in Time" is the first book in L'Engle's "Time Quarter" series and follows the story of a young girl named Meg Murry, whose father, a scientist by profession, goes missing while working on a mysterious project, prompting her to travel through space and time in search of him, according to IGN.
Jim Whitaker and Catherine Hand will serve as producers on the Disney project, which is expected to start production later this year, according to The Wrap.
Earlier this month, there were reports that DuVernay was directing "12 Years a Slave" actress Lupita Nyong'o in DreamWorks' "Intelligent Life," a sci-fi thriller penned by the "Jurassic World" duo Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, as HNGN previously reported.
