Judy Blume‘s classic novel, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, is lastly coming to the large display. It took nearly 50 years till the long-lasting YA writer bought the rights to her beloved 1970 e book to producer James L. Brooks and writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig in 2018. The duo created the movie adaption with Lionsgate and followers are so excited to see the coming-of-age story a few younger woman and not using a non secular affiliation play out in film theaters. The first trailer for the movie got here out January 12 and it seems to be so epic.
Judy’s novel takes place within the ’70s and is a few sixth-grade woman, named Margaret Simon, and her household who transfer from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs. Margaret contends with rising up and not using a religions affiliation since her mother and father have an interfaith marriage. The movie adaption is predicted to inform the identical story because the novel.
From the discharge date to the forged, and extra, right here’s every part it’s essential learn about Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, the film.
Release Date
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret can be launched in theaters on April 28, 2023. The movie was initially scheduled to return out on September 16, 2022, but it surely was delayed by seven months. Filming happened in North Carolina from April to July 2021.
The Trailer
it’s lastly that point. watch the official trailer for are you there god? #itsmemargaret – solely in theaters april 28. pic.twitter.com/o2Z02w903H
— lionsgate (@Lionsgate) January 12, 2023
Lionsgate launched the trailer on January 12, over three months forward of the movie’s theatrical launch. The trailer opens with Margaret and her household transferring out of NYC. “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret,” the sixth-grader says, as she adjusts to life in suburban NJ. Margaret asks to be “normal and just like everybody else.” Margaret offers with a disaster of religion as experiences main teenage moments, like shopping for a bra.
Margaret’s mom, Barbara Simon, additionally has a tough time adjusting to her new life. “It gets tiring, trying so hard all the time, doesn’t it?” Barbara says to Margaret.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Abby Ryder Forston stars as Margaret Simon. She notably performed Cassie Lang within the first two Ant-Man movies. Rachel McAdams and Benny Safdie star as Margaret’s mother and father, Barbara (who’s Christian) and Herb (who’s Jewish). Kathy Bates stars as Margaret’s grandmother, Sylvia. Other forged members embody Gary Houston, Mila Dillon, Elle Graham, Amari Alexis Price, and Katherine Kupferer.
Rachel McAdams spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what drew her to enjoying Barbara. “I felt like Kelly [Fremon Craig, the director] drew a mother that was on a parallel journey with her daughter and trying to be a mom, but also be a person,” the Mean Girls star stated. “[She] is a very supportive mother but also wants to give her child a sense of independence and autonomy and let her go through the wonders of life herself and not cloud those too much with her own ideas of how you should and should not be.”
Crew
Kelly Fremon Craig is the director and screenwriter of the movie. She’s additionally a producer with others together with Judy and James L. Brooks, who she beforehand labored with on the 2016 movie The Edge of Seventeen. Other producers embody Richard Sakai, Amy Brooks, and Julie Ansel. The crew can also be made up of editors Oona Flaherty and Nick Moore, cinematographer Tom Ives, and music composer Hans Zimmer. Gracie Films produced the film and Lionsgate is the distributor.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kelly mirrored on when Judy agreed to give up the rights to her e book so a film might be made. “She was very nervous that someone would turn the film into something very glossy and pretty, where all the edges were sanded off,” Kelly shared. “When I sat down with her, she had just seen my first film, The Edge of Seventeen, and she expressed that that made her feel confident that I was going to embrace all the flaws and nuances. That gave her confidence that the film would have the same honesty that she is so known for.”
How Close Will the Film Be to the Novel?
Kelly defined to EW why she saved the film in the identical period with the identical story as Judy’s novel.
“While certain details have changed over the years, the experience of growing up is really universal,” she stated. “It’s the same across the decades. There’s something about an 11-year-old or 12-year-old girl today, watching a girl in 1970 go through the exact same experience that she’s going through today. It feels so comforting to know that you’re part of a long lineage. It takes that ‘you’re not alone’ feeling and multiplies it exponentially. Because everyone every year before you has gone through this, and [they will] every year after.”
Rachel McAdams advised THR that she has excessive hopes for the teachings that this film can train. “I hope there’s, above all, a feeling of togetherness and community and feeling, as women, like we’re all on the same team,” she defined. “That there’s nothing you can’t talk about with each other. And for men, too.” Rachel additionally stated, “Movies are such a great way to get the ball rolling at the dinner table. I hope that it fosters conversation and a feeling of not being alone.”