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South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin launched his latest feature, the sci-fi creature feature Hope, at the Cannes Film Festival and almost immediately after the premiere the film has generated buzz as a potential genre classic.
Na made his name for genre favorites like the horror The Wailing, the action thrillers The Chaser and The Yellow Sea and so there’s been a lot of interest in the filmmaker’s next feature project. The hype only increased as the film was entered into the main competition at Cannes and was acquired by hip indie distributor Neon before the festival kicked off. And the buzz around Hope was then turbocharged by early social media reaction to its Cannes premiere and a jaw-dropping teaser released by Neon on Sunday.
Hope is a epic sci-fi film that takes place on the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. The plot synopsis reads, “In the remote South Korea village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung- min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village. In the nearby forest, a coterie of hunters, including Sung- ki (Zo In-Sung) set out to track the beast and find themselves hunted instead. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.”
