{"id":513344,"date":"2026-06-01T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/513344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:40:12","slug":"neon-sets-theatrical-release-date-for-na-hong-jins-sci-fi-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/513344\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Sets Theatrical Release Date For Na Hong-Jin&#8217;s Sci-Fi &#8216;Hope&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/neon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_neon\" data-tag=\"neon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neon<\/a> has set the North American release date for Na Hong-Jin Cannes sci-fi hit Hope as Wednesday, September 9th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing its well-received premiere at the 79th Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition, the action-sci-fi recently secured one of the highest volumes of overseas pre-sales for a Korean film with more than 200 territory sales worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet in the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, the film follows \u201cpolice outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) who are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village. In the nearby forest, a coterie of local 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStarring are Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, with Alicia Vikander, and Michael Fassbender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Deadline\u2019s Cannes review for the film, Pete Hammond wrote: \u201cFasten your seat belts. Cannes just unveiled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hope\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hope<\/a>,\u00a0a sci-fi alien monster mash from South Korean director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/na-hong-jin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Na Hong-Jin<\/a>\u00a0that never lets up for a minute of its two-hour, 40-minute running time and out-Hollywoods anything of its kind made by Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPic was written and directed by Na Hong-Jin, produced by Forged Films, co-produced by Plus M Entertainment, Westworld, and presented and distributed by Plus M Entertainment. The Korean release is lined up for this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Neon has set the North American release date for Na Hong-Jin Cannes sci-fi hit Hope as Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,20477,19,17,327,7674],"class_list":["post-513344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hope","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-neon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}