Ava DuVernay is busy putting together "Queen Sugar," a drama series for Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, but the "Selma" director is highly sought after. And nothing speaks to that more than the news today of two projects which are crossing her desk, with producers and studios eager to get the filmmaker to sign on. The info comes from Deadline, who made their reveal in a weekly conversation between Mike Fleming Jr. and Peter Bart.
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"'Selma' director Ava DuVernay is right now being courted simultaneously to direct two major features. Disney has offered her 'A Wrinkle In Time,' an adaptation of the 1963 Newbery Medal-winning Madeleine L’Engle fantasy classic novel that has a script by Oscar-winning 'Frozen' writer and co-director Jennifer Lee. At the same time, she’s in the conversation at Amblin to direct 'Intelligent Life,' a sci-fi thriller scripted by Colin Trevorrow and...
