Tilda Swinton & Idris Elba Star In Official Trailer For George Miller’s THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING

MGM has dropped the official trailer for director George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing. The adult fairytale is currently slated for a theatrical release on August 31, 2022.

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.

Check out the trailer in the player below:

Three Thousand Years of Longing comes to cinemas August 31, 2022.