The first trailer to the long-awaited feature adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret drew great laughs from exhibitors today at CinemaCon.
As Deadline first reported in early March 2020, the studio won the film rights to Blume’s 1970 novel in an auction, greenlighting the feature with a $30M production cost and Kelly Fremon Craig directing her scripted take and Gracie Films’ James L. Brooks producing. The two teamed up on The Edge of Seventeen.
A period comedy, we see Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) battle the challenges of adolescence from bras to buying tampons. “Hello, girls, we’re going to talk about your changing bodies,” says the school marm at the beginning of the trailer. Margaret lives in NYC, but the family moves to the country where her mom, played by Rachel McAdams tells Margaret “you’re going to make more friends. Kathy Bates also stars. The trailer ends with a group of girls chanting in unison, “We must! We must increase our busts!”
