Korean auteur Na Hong-jin is finally headed back to Cannes. A decade after his visceral supernatural freakout The Wailing wowed festivalgoers, the genre mercenary is set to return to the Croisette this May with the long-gestating sci-fi thriller Hope, his first film in the event’s main competition.
Hope was among the 21-title competition lineup unveiled Thursday by Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux at the festival’s annual press conference in Paris.
Teasing the project briefly for the assembled press corps, Fremaux said Hope runs “over two hours” and “constantly changes genres” while unfurling a story that’s “no part of history that’s ever been told before.”
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Hope, notably, is also Na’s first film told partially in English with a mixed Korean and Hollywood cast. It pairs Korean stars Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Squid Game‘s Jung Ho-yeon with Oscar-winning couple Michael Fassbender
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