The first trailer for George Miller’s Cannes-premiering Three Thousand Years Of Longing, which premiered this evening at the Cannes Film Festival in the South of France. Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton lead the cast of the film, which will land in cinemas this summer.
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) 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.
The film will land in cinemas in the US on 31st August. This looks so unique and brilliant.
Here’s that trailer. The film debuts in cinemas from 31st August (US).
