MGM has unleashed a very brief – blink and you’ll miss it – teaser for George Miller’s upcoming Three Thousand Years Of Longing. The film will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the South of France this week and it looks great.
Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton lead the cast of the film which will have a full trailer online on Friday, the same day it premieres at Cannes.
Here’s the synopsis, followed by the short teaser.
Dr Alithea Binnie is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
