The young girl’s journey is intimately connected to her faith, having learned the game at the Agape Sanctuary Ministries. The ace up Disney’s sleeve is that they can pivot to marketing the movie as a faith-based story if the chess stuff doesn’t catch on. That’s a gamble, for sure, but one that the marketing power of Disney can easily overcome.Īll the encouraging pats on the back that fill this trailer minimizes the fact that the movie will revolve around chess, which is about as fun cinematically as all the math movies we’ve been getting lately. However, newcomer Madina Nalwanga was entrusted to carry the film as the young chess prodigy, and by newcomer, I mean that this is her first credited role. They went after some big guns for the adaptation, getting Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo for the adult roles and landing Mira Nair as the director. The movie is based on the ESPN article and book “The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster”, which was optioned to parent company Disney. My guess is that the word will sneak into pretty much all of them, and it will have been planted there very purposefully by the filmmakers. The first trailer avoids the word, but it’s putting it right on the tip of your tongue with the swelling music and the numerous snippets of pep talks. Let’s guess how many reviewers will use the word ‘inspirational’ when describing Queen of Katwe.
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