When you wish upon a tesseract: How Hope Larson landed the adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time

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I’m slightly hesitant to even bring it up given what a bizarre, unnecessarily nasty clusterfuck our last comment thread on the topic became, but one project I’ve been tracking with great interest is cartoonist Hope Larson’s adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s classic science fiction novel A Wrinkle in Time. That’s why I was so struck by John Scarff’s report on the Hope Larson spotlight panel at last weekend’s WonderCon 2011:

Having been met by a few audible gasps when she mentioned that she would be adapting A Wrinkle in Time earlier in the panel, Larson explained how her involvement in the project came about. Jokingly referring to “a dinky little interview” a year ago when she suggested that it would be the only other author’s work she could see her self adapting, she was contacted by the publisher and the estate of Madeleine L’Engle. “I just can’t imagine a book that fit me as well as that one,” she said. “I wanted to be the one who was gonna screw it up.”

From Larson’s lips to God’s ears, apparently! I’m always delighted by stories about creative enterprises coming about in so fortuitous a fashion; I feel like it’s a good omen for the resulting work. Fingers crossed!

April 5, 2011 @ 01:30 PM by Sean T. CollinsTagged: A Wrinkle in Time, adaptations, Hope Larson, Madeleine L'Engle, wondercon2011 3 CommentsLouisApril 5, 2011 at 2:12 pm

I’m really looking forward to the adaption Hope!

RyanApril 5, 2011 at 2:41 pm

Yes, color me excited too, and I have been since I first heard about this.

Chris A. BoltonApril 5, 2011 at 2:55 pm

Wow, that earlier comments thread was jaw-dropping! It’s amazing to me what some people choose to get so worked up about.

Personally, I’m excited to read Hope’s adaptation. I’m a grown man, but the new Eric Shanower/Skottie Young adaptations of the Oz books got me interested in Baum’s novels for the first time. I anticipate similar reactions to “Wrinkle” among the plethora of younger readers.

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