Neon Debuts Official Teaser For Na Hong-Jin’s Buzzy Cannes Title ‘Hope’; Sets Fall Theatrical Release

On nan heels of its successful Competition debut astatine Cannes, wherever it received a seven-minute opinionated ovation, Neon has released nan charismatic teaser for Na Hong-jin‘s buzzy sci-fi title, Hope, which will front successful theaters this fall.

The conscionable complete minute-and-a-half first look previews a desolate, bloodied and disordered street, lined pinch wrecked cars and abandoned buildings. As nan eerie, synth-forward and siren-infused people picks up, viewers get a glimpse astatine nan aliens terrorizing a South Korean town.

Per nan charismatic synopsis: “In Hope Harbor, a distant colony adjacent nan Demilitarized Zone, constabulary main Bum-seok receives alarming news from section youths that a tiger has appeared. As nan colony erupts into panic, Bum-seok is forced to face a reality beyond belief.”

The starry formed includes Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton.

Early reviews for nan movie praise it arsenic an action-packed blockbuster that, arsenic Deadline’s Pete Hammond put it, “never lets up for a infinitesimal of its two-hour, 40-minute moving clip and out-Hollywoods thing of its benignant made by Hollywood.”

This is Na’s 4th travel to nan French Riviera fest, pursuing his 3 erstwhile films: The Wailing, which screened Out of Competition successful 2016; nan crime-thriller The Yellow Sea, which screened successful nan Un Certain Regard conception successful 2011; and his thriller The Chaser, besides Out of Competition successful 2008.

Neon acquired nan North American and English-language rights to Hope successful April, aft reportedly aggressively pursuing nan task since an early footage position successful November. Later on, it was announced that Mubi picked up nan rights for Latin America, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Turkey up of nan film’s Cannes debut.