In A Wrinkle in Time, the Man with Red Eyes is the secondary villain; a "front" for IT. He interacts directly with the children and possesses Charles Wallace into IT's control. At one point in the book, he refers to himself as the "Prime Coordinator".
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2003 Film[]
In the 2003 film adaptation, the Man with Red Eyes had imprisoned Jack in CENTRAL Central Intelligence on Camazotz and is primarily awaiting Charles Wallace. He is the primary villain in this iteration of the story. His main goal is to carry out IT's mission to institute complete conformity for everyone in the universe. Through clairvoyant abilities, he is able to discern Charles Wallace's intelligence, and thus attempts to convince him to join the side of IT by appealing to his intellectual interests.
Physical Appearance[]
As the name suggests, the Man with Red Eyes has red eyes in all versions of A Wrinkle in Time.
2003 Film[]
In the 2003 film, the Man with the Red Eyes is seen wearing a completely black outfit including a sweater and a long coat.
2018 Film[]
In the 2018 film, Red is seen wearing a suit with shorts. On the suit is a beach and lighthouse. At first, Red conceals his red eyes behind round sunglasses.
Trivia[]
- The backstory of the Man with Red Eyes can be found in the deleted scenes of the 2003 film. Here, his name is Hank and he is seen working alongside Jack to find the Tesseract though computer programming. Hank can even be seen wearing the same sweater as the Man with Red Eyes is wearing in the main film. Eventually, the two scientists find the Tesseract and are instantly warped off of Earth.
- In the deleted scenes, Hank is shown to be familiar with Jack's family. This explains how he would have known about the children's intelligence and sought them out specifically.
- In the 2003 movie, when Meg confronts the Man with Red Eyes for the second time and they are in a simulation of her classroom, his eyes temporarily change back to normal during the duration of the scene.