On the heels of its in Competition debut at Cannes, where it received a seven-minute standing ovation, Neon has released the official teaser for Na Hong-jin‘s buzzy sci-fi title, Hope, which will bow in theaters this fall.
The just over minute-and-a-half first look previews a desolate, bloodied and disordered street, lined with wrecked cars and abandoned buildings. As the eerie, synth-forward and siren-infused score picks up, viewers get a glimpse at the aliens terrorizing a South Korean town.
Per the official synopsis: “In Hope Harbor, a remote village near the Demilitarized Zone, police chief Bum-seok receives alarming news from local youths that a tiger has appeared. As the village erupts into panic, Bum-seok is forced to confront a reality beyond belief.”
The starry cast includes Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton.
Early reviews for the film praise it as an action-packed blockbuster that, as Deadline’s Pete Hammond put it, “never lets up for a minute of its two-hour, 40-minute running time and out-Hollywoods anything of its kind made by Hollywood.”
This is Na’s fourth trip to the French Riviera fest, following his three previous films: The Wailing, which screened Out of Competition in 2016; the crime-thriller The Yellow Sea, which screened in the Un Certain Regard section in 2011; and his thriller The Chaser, also Out of Competition in 2008.
Neon acquired the North American and English-language rights to Hope in April, after reportedly aggressively pursuing the project since an early footage presentation in November. Later on, it was announced that Mubi picked up the rights for Latin America, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Turkey ahead of the film’s Cannes debut.
