VIDEO: Idris Elba & Tilda Swinton Star in THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING Trailer

A seak peek at the trailer for George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing has been released. The film is based on the short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A.S. Byatt.

Three Thousand Years of Longing will be released in theaters on August 31. Watch a sneak peek of the film's new trailer. The full teaser is set to be released on Friday, May 20.

Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.

Watch a sneak peek at the trailer:

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