Breaking Baz @Cannes: ‘Hope’ Director Na Hong-jin Looked At ‘Jaws’, ‘Lethal Weapon’ & Sci-Fi Pics From ’50s & ’60s For Inspiration On Cannes Crowd-Pleaser

Hope, the mega, non-stop action, alien thriller from filmmaker Na Hong-jin, had its premiere at the Grand Théâtre Auditorium Sunday night and it had the audience bursting into spontaneous rounds of ecstatic applause during certain high-octane moments.

It was shot primarily on locations and sound stages in South Korea, thousands of miles away from Los Angeles — but Hollywood lingers in the movie’s DNA.

'Hope' review Cannes Film Festival

Director Na says he watched scores of Hollywood movies as he was writing his script. The film starts out with a lone sheriff [Hwang Jung-min] who

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