Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.

 Directed by: George Miller

Written by: George Miller and Augusta Gore

Based upon: The short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt

Executive Producers: Dean Hood, Craig McMahon, Kevin Sun

Music by: Tom Holkenborg

Cast: Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton

In Theaters August 31st