Three Thousand Years of Longing

…2022 Miller directed and cowrote Three Thousand Years of Longing, an adaptation of a short story by A.S. Byatt. It centers on a scholar (Tilda Swinton) who discovers a jinni (Idris Elba) and is offered three wishes.

…several films, including George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing, in which he played a djinn. The following year he took the lead role in the TV miniseries Hijack, a thriller about an airplane that is taken over by armed men. For his performance, Elba earned an Emmy nomination. Also…

…several films, including George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing, in which she played a scholar who encounters a jinni (Idris Elba) and is offered three wishes. Her credits from 2024 include Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, based on Sigrid Nunez’s novel about a dying woman (Swinton) who reconnects…