First Clip From George Miller's THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING - “Wish We Never Met”
Mad Max director George Miller‘s upcoming film Three Thousand Years of Longing is going to be an absolutely insane film! I’ve enjoyed all of the wild footage that’s been released and today we’ve got the first clips from the film for you to watch which features a scene Idris Elba’s genie meeting with Tilda Swinton’s Dr. Alithea Binnie, who is being stubborn about making her wishes.
The film is based on the short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A.S. Byatt, and this is the synopsis:
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.
I love the films of George Miller, and this next one of his seems to have a Terry Gilliam-type vibe to it. It seems like it has the same energy as films such as Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
When previously talking about the film, Miller called it his anti-Mad Max movie, explaining, “One thing I can tell you; it’s not [another Fury Road]. It’s a movie that is very strongly visual, but it’s almost the opposite of Fury Road. It’s almost all interior and there’s a lot of conversation in it. There are action scenes, but they are by the by and I guess you could say it’s the anti-Mad Max.”
Three Thousand Years of Longing will be released in theaters on August 31, 2022.