Idris Elba Is A Djinn In New Teaser For George Miller’s THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING

Watch the official trailer tease for THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, directed by George Miller. See the full trailer online this Friday.

The film will show Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film’s score was composed by TOM HOLKENBORG, who had written the music for MAD MAX: FURY
ROAD.

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.

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING is written by George Miller and Augusta Gore, based upon The short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt.

For more on the film and director’s return to Cannes, check out the article over at Deadline here: https://deadline.com/2022/05/george-miller-cannes-three-thousand-years-of-longing-1235020237/