Три тысячи лет желаний (Three Thousand Years of Longing)

Съемки пройдут в Австралии и продлятся до начала весны

More than two years after it was announced and after a couple of delays, George Miller’s anticipated fantasy-romance-drama Three Thousand Years Of Longing is now underway in Australia, we can reveal. The Sydney-based production, which is observing numerous on-set Covid safety protocols, is in fact 20 days into its 62-day shoot. The team will break up over Christmas and reconvene early next year before wrapping in the early spring for a planned September 2021 delivery.

 

Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba are starring in Miller’s latest, whose plot details are being kept under wraps. The visionary filmmaker previously described the project to us as an “anti-Mad Max” with plenty of interiors and dialogue but also punctuated with action scenes.

 

The estimated $60M budget is an indication that this is far from your average two-hander, however. Producer Doug Mitchell, Miller’s long-time producing partner, described the Sydney sets to us today “as some of the most spectacular I’ve ever seen” and noted that as the title suggests, audiences will glimpse different aspects of a three thousand year history.

 

Visionary filmmaker Miller has attracted a crew to die for, including most of his Mad Max: Fury Road collaborators. The great Oscar-winning DoP John Seale, known for his work on The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, has come out of retirement to lens the film, which will be only his second of the last decade, the other being six-time Oscar winner Fury Road.

 

Oscar-winning Fury Road editor and longtime Miller partner Margaret Sixel is aboard, as are that film’s Oscar-winning hair and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, Oscar-winning set decorator Lisa Thompson, composer Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL, casting director Nikki Barrett, first AD P.J. Voeten, stunt co-ordinator Guy Norris, and prosthetics whizz Sheldon Wade.

 

Also in the team are Miller’s Oscar-nominated Babe production designer Roger Ford, The Matrix costume designer Kym Barrett and Captain Marvel and Avengers VFX supervisor Paul Butterworth. Supporting cast is being kept under wraps for now.

 

“George thinks this is the best crew he has ever worked with,” Mitchell told us. It’s easy to see why.

 

Since we announced the movie two years ago, the pandemic proved the biggest hurdle to production but insurance was ultimately confirmed via French bank Coficine. The initial plan had been to also film in Istanbul and London but the entire shoot will now take place in Australia.

 

MGM boarded domestic rights to the film earlier this year and will distribute via its United Artists Releasing label. Amid this week’s streaming day-and-date furore, Mitchell said the expectation is very much for the film to get a theatrical release. Key finance partners on the journey to production have also included CAA Media Finance, FilmNation and Chinese buyer Sunac Culture.

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A scholar, content with life, encounters a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation, in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to consequences neither would have expected

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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Test-Screens in NYC

It's been seven years since George Miller gave us "Mad Max: Fury Road," but before he boards its sequel "Furiosa," Miller will be tackling romance with "Three Thousand Years of Longing,” starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.

 

The film was test-screened on Tuesday at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York City. A genie romance that will be highly polarizing is what I’m hearing. A $60 million dollar art film.

 

Miller examines contemporary society via the conventions of the folk or fairy tale genre. This is a film about the “impact of storytelling on storytelling,” a sort of “Arabian Nights” for our times. Another person who attended mentioned the “sensuality and eroticism” depicted in the film, and that this was Miller’s most philosophical movie to date, one that might alienate much of the fanbase he built with “Fury Road.”

 

Said to not be as visually-driven as ‘Fury Road’ the film tells the story of a lonely and bitter British woman who discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with apathy, she is unable to come up with a wish until his stories spark in her a desire to be loved. Her resulting wishes are not for prosperity or happy forever-afters, but for solving issues that she has to deal with in the modern world.

 

There is currently still no release date for “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”

История об одинокой и озлобленной британке (Суинтон), которая обнаруживает старинную бутылку во время поездки в Стамбул и высвобождает джинна, способного исполнить три ее желания. Наполненная апатией, она не может придумать ни одного, пока его рассказы не зажгут в ней желание быть любимой.

ясно, дед почти всё у Исаямы украл.

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Довольно интересный синопсис. Вот только что нового Джинн откроет для себя?

Вспомнился Век Адалин, неплохой фильм, оказавшийся обычной мелодрамой.

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А за окном Босфор...