Silver screen dream team! Reese Witherspoon joins forces with Oprah Winfrey in A Wrinkle In Time trailer
It is the sort of team up sure to get fans of fine cinema lathered into a frenzy.
For Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon joins forces with chat show doyen Oprah Winfrey in the trailer for forthcoming feature A Wrinkle In Time.
And just when it seemed this heavyweight acting combination could not get more exciting, they have donned heavy makeup to play a pair of powerful celestial beings who work to the help the film's young protagonists find their missing father.
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Superstar one: Reese Witherspoon stars in the new trailer for A Wrinkle In Time
Superstar two: But the excitement reaches fever pitch when chat show doyen Oprah Winfrey appears
In the forthcoming Disney feature Reese plays the comically named Mrs Whatsit, while Lee Daniels' The Butler favourite Oprah stars as Mrs Which.
Their team is completed by self-styled comic Mindy Kaling, whose character is Mrs Who.
The film follows 12 Years A Slave star Storm Reid's Meg Murry , who learns her astrophysicist father, played by the famously wooden Chris Pine, is being held captive on a distant planet gripped by evil.
She enlists the help of her genius younger brother Charles, played by Deric McCabe, and and her amiable oaf classmate Calvin.
The three amigos: Their characters Mrs Whatsit and Mrs Which are joined by Mindy Kaling's character Mrs Who
Do you knno my name? Legally Blonde star Reese plays the wonderfully named Mrs Whatsit
String theory: Storm Reid's Meg Murry explains how to instantaneously travel around the universe
The new Mindy project: She looks like she is having a ball in her role
They decide to put her father's work, which examines how space can be navigated through the use of a fifth dimension that allows almost instantaneous travel.
Adding an extra dose of hilarity to proceedings, roly-poly funnyman Zach Galifianakis plays a mystic character called the Happy Medium.
While the film, which opens March 9, features a strong female protagonist and numerous other characters, it is something of an all round girl power extravanganza.
For Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay is the first black woman to direct a movie with a budget surpassing $100 million.
Star power: The casting directors really hit a home run with this trio
A washout: At one point is seems Meg is ready to throw in the towel
The power of Oprah: But luckily the ever inspirational chat show star is on hand with a pep talk
Nursing a Hangover? Roly-poly funnyman Zach Galifianakis plays the mystic Happy Medium
As if that was not enough the screenplay was written by Jennifer Lee, who also penned and co-directed Frozen.
But the true icing on the cake is the fact it based on the popular novel by Madeleine L'Engle, which was printed in 1962.
The New York-born writer was famed for fusing her interest in both her Christian faith and science in her writing.
There goes the budget: The impressive computer generated graphics helped push the budget past $100 million
Pine: Chris plays the mysteriously missing astrophysicist father of the children
Tree: The children are flown around at one point by an enormous living sapling
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