The Big Picture George Miller will likely be associated with the creation of the Mad Max franchise for the rest of his career, as the saga changed post-apocalyptic science fiction cinema forever. What’s more surprising is that Miller’s work outside of his most famous franchise couldn’t be more idiosyncratic.
Three Thousand Years of Longing RDrama Release Date 2020-00-00 Director George Miller Cast Idris Elba , Tilda Swinton Runtime 108 minutes What Is 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' About? Loosely based on the short story collection “The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt, Three Thousand Years of Longing explores multiple historical events through the perspective of a magical Djinn.
'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Shows George Miller’s Sincerity Three Thousand Years of Longing certainly is not lacking in scope, as the epic flashbacks to ancient history have the same scale and visual ingenuity as any of the Mad Max’s franchise most elaborate action sequences. However, the strongest moments in Three Thousand Years of Longing are the subdued, intimate scenes between Elba and Swinton.