“I will make a sequel when possible,” said Korean director Na Hong-Jin at this afternoon’s Cannes press conference for the film.
The sci-fi action movie made its world premiere last night at the fest to a seven-minute standing ovation. While the three protagonists are played by Korean actors, the family of extraterrestrial bad guys are played by English-speaking actors Michael Fassbender, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and Taylor Russell.
Hope centers around an alien invasion from the planet Gh’ertu crash-landing in rural South Korean town, Hope Harbor. All hell is unleashed as the aliens representing all kinds of shapes and class divisions from that planet square off with the locals.
Best question from the presser came from a journo who asked director Na: “Will aliens be coming to Earth and teach us something?”
The director scoffed, “Why are you asking me this question! If aliens are really invading the earth? Maybe Michael and Alicia if they can give you an answer.”
Fassbender eloquently took the high road in his answer: “I don’t know we can learn something. It depends. In the last couple of years, the American government has been releasing stuff that pilots have captured –unidentifiable flying objects. Hopefully we’re learning something from them. In our case, what’s interesting about the aliens — we compare them to humans. They want the same thing, protecting their young, protecting the future of their young. The similarities between us and aliens is what we look at in the film.”
