Ahead of its Cannes Film Festival premiere tonight, MGM has released the first trailer for George Miller’s next film after ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’, and whoever knows how crazy, colorful and generally bats – this movie won’t disappoint from first look to its last.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” stars Tilda Swinton as a scholar who, at a conference in Istanbul, meets Idris Elba as a millennial Djinn – or genius – who offers him three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Swinton’s character doubts that Djinn of Elba is the real deal, though, and she’s also well versed in the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. But the Djinn pleads her case by telling her fantastical stories from his past, eventually seducing her to make a wish that surprises them both.
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It’s even more of the madness Miller has become known for since his sensational 2015 “Fury Road.” Miller made this smaller, more intimate movie in between shooting his upcoming “Furiosa,” which is a prequel film the story of Charlize Theron’s “Fury Road” character.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” is based on a short story called “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by AS Byatt, and George Miller also wrote the screenplay with Augusta Gore.
MGM releases “Three Thousand Years of Longing” in theaters on August 31, and it makes its first out-of-competition Cannes premiere starting Friday.
Check out the film’s first full trailer above.
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