{"id":577040,"date":"2026-07-09T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/577040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:59:13","slug":"watch-hope-trailer-for-na-hong-jins-cannes-monster-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/577040\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch ‘Hope’ Trailer for Na Hong-jin’s Cannes Monster Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEerie silence hangs over mangled bodies and buildings between flash cuts to a mysterious, galloping beast on the rampage \u2014 so begins the latest official trailer for cult Korean director Na Hong-jin<\/a>\u2018s Hope<\/a>. The trailer finds the film\u2019s protagonists alternately hunting or fleeing the vicious creature \u2014 or creatures \u2014 through a tattered town known as Hope<\/a> Harbor, a remote coastal village near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in South Korea. Snippets near the end of the roughly two-minute spot reveal an alien spacecraft streaking through the sky, laying bare that this is a rare, big-budget Korean sci-fi spectacle, not just another white-knuckle action freakout from the director of The Chaser and The Wailing. (See the full trailer below.) <\/p>\n

\n\tThe spot debuted Thursday, ahead of a two-stage rollout: Plus M Entertainment opens Hope in South Korean cinemas on July 15, before Neon launches the film exclusively in North American theaters on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

\n\tHope \u2014 the auteur\u2019s first feature in roughly a decade \u2014 world premiered in competition at Cannes in May, drawing a six-minute standing ovation and a wave of sharply divided critical reaction, ranging from rapture to some notes of bafflement.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter\u2018s chief film critic David Rooney weighed in firmly on the rapturous side<\/a>, hailing the film as a \u201crip-roaring sci-fi creature feature\u201d that \u201chas instant cult classic written all over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a great feeling to know from a movie\u2019s first frames that you\u2019re in the hands of an assured genre auteur,\u201d Rooney wrote. \u201cThe rare action thriller that takes place almost entirely in broad daylight, Hope pulls you in immediately with its virtuoso camerawork, pulse-pounding score, adrenalized pacing and sharply drawn characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSet in the fictional border town of Hope Harbor, the film follows police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) as they hunt the mysterious creature laying waste to their village, while a band of local hunters led by Sung-ki (Zo In-sung) tracks the beast through the surrounding forest, only to become its prey. What begins as misjudgment, the official synopsis teases, spirals through human conflict into tragedy on a cosmic scale.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Korean ensemble \u2014 including Hwang, reuniting with Na after The Wailing, and Squid Game breakout Hoyeon \u2014 is rounded out by several high-profile Hollywood names, with Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton turning up in minor but surprising supporting parts. Rooney singled out Hoyeon in particular, calling the model-turned-actress \u201ca hoot in her first feature role, from her action moves to her comic timing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNa made his name on a trio of stunning genre spectacles \u2014 the crime thrillers The Chaser and The Yellow Sea and the 2016 horror hit The Wailing \u2014 and reunites here with his Wailing cinematographer, Hong Kyung-pyo, a revered figure in the Korean industry whose other credits include Bong Joon Ho\u2019s Parasite and Lee Chang-dong\u2019s Burning. The score is by Michael Abels, the composer behind Jordan Peele\u2019s Get Out and Nope.<\/p>\n

\n\tNa has conceived Hope as the first chapter of a potential franchise \u2014 and international<\/a> buyers appear on board. Korean seller Plus M pre-sold the film to roughly 200 territories out of Cannes, a record for a Korean title, with the deals, per Plus M, recouping nearly half of the movie\u2019s net production budget ahead of release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eerie silence hangs over mangled bodies and buildings between flash cuts to a mysterious, galloping beast on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[2786,18,117,20477,19,1452,17,327,214129,1983],"class_list":["post-577040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-asia","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hope","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-na-hong-jin","tag-trailers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116890616642112968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577040","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=577040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}