Hope (2026) — Cannes Premiere to Release Path
Wire brief: Na Hong-jin’s Hope premiered at Cannes with an international cast — production-to-release notes for anyone tracking the Korean creature epic.
Hope arrived with Cannes premiere heat and a notably international cast for a Korean production — Hwang Jung-min and Zo In-sung alongside global names billed in festival coverage. That casting is the production story; runtime (~160 minutes) is the audience planning story.
Celluloid’s critic desk covers the film as a craft/ambiton split rather than a pure creature-feature delivery system. For festival context see /festivals/cannes/ and the Cannes poster lookbook.
Wire rule: we log premiere and release-path facts here; full argument belongs in the review.