From the mad genius of George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road), Three Thousand Years of Longing is up next, and MGM has shared a short teaser trailer that’s sure to get you pumped.
The film has been described as an “epic fantasy romance,” and it’s premiering in Cannes. Watch the teaser below. The official trailer, MGM notes, will make its way online this Friday.
This first teaser doesn’t give us much to go on but it’s loaded with attention-grabbing imagery, so much of it in fact that we recommend you freeze-frame your way through the video!
Three Thousand Years of Longing opens in theaters on August 31, 2022.
In the film, “A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. What she wants is love, but can and should he grant it to her?”
Here’s a longer plot synopsis MGM just sent out for Three Thousand Years of Longing, which is based on the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt…
“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.”
Idris Elba stars alongside Tilda Swinton, Kaan Guldur, Alyla Browne, and Angie Tricker.
George Miller wrote and directed Three Thousand Years of Longing. Up next Miller will be directing Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa, the prequel to his masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road.
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