‘Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret’: The First Trailer, The Cast, & More Updates On The Film

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Judy Blume‘s classical novel, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, is yet coming to the large screen. It took astir 50 years until the iconic YA writer sold the rights to her beloved 1970 publication to producer James L. Brooks and writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig in 2018. The duo created the movie adaption with Lionsgate and fans are truthful excited to spot the coming-of-age communicative astir a young miss without a spiritual affiliation play retired successful movie theaters. The first trailer for the movie came retired January 12 and it looks truthful epic.

Judy’s novel takes spot successful the ’70s and is about a sixth-grade girl, named Margaret Simon, and her household who determination from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs. Margaret contends with increasing up without a religions affiliation since her parents person an interfaith marriage. The movie adaption is expected to archer the aforesaid communicative arsenic the novel.

From the merchandise day to the cast, and more, here’s everything you request to cognize astir Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, the movie.

Release Date

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret will beryllium released successful theaters connected April 28, 2023. The movie was primitively scheduled to travel retired connected September 16, 2022, but it was delayed by 7 months. Filming took spot successful North Carolina from April to July 2021.

The Trailer

it’s yet that time. ticker the authoritative trailer for are you determination god? #itsmemargaret – lone successful theaters april 28. pic.twitter.com/o2Z02w903H

— lionsgate (@Lionsgate) January 12, 2023

Lionsgate released the trailer connected January 12, implicit 3 months up of the film’s theatrical release. The trailer opens with Margaret and her household moving retired of NYC. “Are you determination God? It’s me, Margaret,” the sixth-grader says, arsenic she adjusts to beingness successful suburban NJ. Margaret asks to beryllium “normal and conscionable similar everybody else.” Margaret deals with a situation of religion arsenic experiences large teenage moments, similar buying a bra.

Margaret’s mother, Barbara Simon, besides has a hard clip adjusting to her caller life. “It gets tiring, trying truthful hard each the time, doesn’t it?” Barbara says to Margaret.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Abby Ryder Forston stars arsenic Margaret Simon. She notably played Cassie Lang successful the archetypal two Ant-Man films. Rachel McAdams and Benny Safdie prima arsenic Margaret’s parents, Barbara (who is Christian) and Herb (who is Jewish). Kathy Bates stars arsenic Margaret’s grandmother, Sylvia. Other formed members see Gary Houston, Mila Dillon, Elle Graham, Amari Alexis Price, and Katherine Kupferer.

Rachel McAdams spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what drew her to playing Barbara. “I felt similar Kelly [Fremon Craig, the director] drew a parent that was connected a parallel travel with her girl and trying to beryllium a mom, but besides beryllium a person,” the Mean Girls star said. “[She] is simply a precise supportive parent but besides wants to springiness her kid a consciousness of independency and autonomy and fto her spell done the wonders of beingness herself and not unreality those excessively overmuch with her ain ideas of however you should and should not be.”

Crew

Kelly Fremon Craig is the manager and screenwriter of the film. She’s besides a shaper with others including Judy and James L. Brooks, who she antecedently worked with connected the 2016 film The Edge of Seventeen. Other producers see Richard Sakai, Amy Brooks, and Julie Ansel. The unit is besides made up of editors Oona Flaherty and Nick Moore, cinematographer Tom Ives, and euphony composer Hans Zimmer. Gracie Films produced the movie and Lionsgate is the distributor.

In an interrogation with Entertainment Weekly, Kelly reflected connected erstwhile Judy agreed to surrender the rights to her publication truthful a movie could beryllium made. “She was precise tense that idiosyncratic would crook the movie into thing precise glossy and pretty, wherever each the edges were sanded off,” Kelly shared. “When I sat down with her, she had conscionable seen my archetypal film, The Edge of Seventeen, and she expressed that that made her consciousness assured that I was going to clasp each the flaws and nuances. That gave her assurance that the movie would person the aforesaid honesty that she is truthful known for.”

How Close Will the Film Be to the Novel?

Kelly explained to EW why she kept the movie successful the aforesaid epoch with the aforesaid communicative arsenic Judy’s novel.

“While definite details person changed implicit the years, the acquisition of increasing up is truly universal,” she said. “It’s the aforesaid crossed the decades. There’s thing astir an 11-year-old oregon 12-year-old miss today, watching a miss successful 1970 spell done the nonstop aforesaid acquisition that she’s going done today. It feels truthful comforting to cognize that you’re portion of a agelong lineage. It takes that ‘you’re not alone’ feeling and multiplies it exponentially. Because everyone each twelvemonth earlier you has gone done this, and [they will] each twelvemonth after.”

Rachel McAdams told THR that she has precocious hopes for the lessons that this movie tin teach. “I anticipation there’s, supra all, a feeling of togetherness and assemblage and feeling, arsenic women, similar we’re each connected the aforesaid team,” she explained. “That there’s thing you can’t speech astir with each other. And for men, too.” Rachel besides said, “Movies are specified a large mode to get the shot rolling astatine the meal table. I anticipation that it fosters speech and a feeling of not being alone.”

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