Filming Locations: Where was A Wrinkle in Time filmed?

A Wrinkle in Time is based on a sci-fi adventure novel written in 1963 by Madeleine L'Engle, revolving around interdimensional space-time travel and the classic struggle between good and evil.

The story follows a young girl trying to save her father, a government astrophysicist who disappeared after working on a mysterious project known as the Tesseract.

The book has been brought to the screen before, but never on the scale of a major motion picture adaptation like this one.

Ava DuVernay (Selma, Middle of Nowhere) became the first Black woman to direct a blockbuster film with a budget of over $100 million.

A Wrinkle in Time was filmed in California and New Zealand. The production was based at Santa Clarita Studios in Los Angeles County, which was also used as a filming location for the Netflix series Space Force.

Location manager Alison Taylor was awarded for her work on this project. Here are the spoiler-free filming locations for this new fantasy tale from Disney:

The wondrous landscapes of New Zealand were digitally altered to be transformed into the utopian planet, Uriel.

Wrinkle was filmed on location along the northern shores of Lake Hawea, near Hunter Valley Station (the exact spot is between The Neck and Kidds Bush Reserve).
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Outdoor scenes were also shot at Lake Pukaki and in the Mt. Cook National Park area.
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Much of the principal filming was done in the Golden State; the crew shot at Sequoia Park, Glatt, and U Street in Eureka (Humboldt County).
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Scenes set on the planet Camazotz were filmed at several locations in the redwood forests of Humboldt County and at Patrick’s Point State Park.
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Thanks to this detailed article about the locations in Los Angeles from Curbed LA, we found out that Meg’s house is at 2523 Fourth Avenue, although the bedroom scenes were filmed at 1927 South Oxford Avenue.

Mrs. Ws house is located at 2153 West 30th Street (pictured).
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Meg’s school is Crenshaw High School, and the Tateuchi Democracy Forum at Little Tokyo’s Japanese American Museum served as the NASA conference room.

A section of Venice Beach on the west side of Los Angeles doubled as Camazotz Beach.
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The identical suburbs of Camazotz were filmed at the U.S. Air Force Base housing in San Pedro, near Fort MacArthur.

It was a dark and stormy night... We recommend the acclaimed original classic book A Wrinkle in Time, part of Madeleine L'Engle’s Time Quintet series (four more films were in the pipeline before plans were scrapped following negative reviews: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time). This epic adventure is also available as a graphic novel.

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