{"id":642132,"date":"2026-05-01T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642132\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:15:10","slug":"photos-wailing-directors-sci-fi-thriller-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642132\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: &#8220;Wailing&#8221; Director&#8217;s Sci-Fi Thriller &#8220;Hope&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photos-wailing-directors-sci-fi-thriller-hope.jpg\" data-caption=\"Plus M Entertainment, NEON\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photos-wailing-directors-sci-fi-thriller-hope.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"photos-wailing-directors-sci-fi-thriller-hope\"\/><\/a>Plus M Entertainment, NEON<\/p>\n<p>The first photos are out for South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin\u2019s new sci-fi thriller \u201cHope\u201d which will be part of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival\u2019s Official Competition.<\/p>\n<p>The project marks Na\u2019s first feature since 2016\u2019s widely hailed supernatural masterpiece \u201cThe Wailing\u201d.  Cinematographer Alex Hong (\u201cParasite,\u201d \u201cBurning,\u201d The Wailing\u201d) lenses the film.<\/p>\n<p>The story begins in the isolated village of Hope Harbor, not far from the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Reports of a tiger sighting prompt the arrogant but duty-bound local police chief (Hwang Jung-min) to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>But what begins as a simple rural emergency quickly snowballs into something far stranger \u2014 a cosmic mystery that tears the town\u2019s sense of reality apart.<\/p>\n<p>Zo In-sung portrays Sung-ki, a young local who passes his days hunting and fishing. Hoyeon appears as Sung-ae, a tenacious officer who remains steadfast in her duties.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton all appear as aliens whose arrival brings waves of paranoia and terror amongst the populace.<\/p>\n<p>NEON has acquired North American rights ahead of the festival premiere.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First images from Na Hong-Jin&#8217;s Cannes-bound HOPE (which don&#8217;t come close to revealing the true craziness that was displayed in the teaser trailer that played <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CinemaCon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CinemaCon<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D81lJlvnda\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/D81lJlvnda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barry Hertz (@HertzBarry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HertzBarry\/status\/2049650934259634231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/terminator-2-judgment-day-returns-to-cinemas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTerminator 2: Judgment Day\u201d Returns To Cinemas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus M Entertainment, NEON The first photos are out for South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin\u2019s new sci-fi thriller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-642132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}