Finally, Our First Great Look at Bong Joon Ho’s New Sci-Fi Movie Mickey 17

Yesterday, the authoritative X/Twitter relationship for director Bong Joon Ho‘s upcoming sci-fi movie Mickey 17 uploaded an abbreviated clip featuring a chilly Robert Pattinson teasing the long-awaited accomplishment of the film’s trailer. “What’s it similar to die?”, Pattinson’s quality is asked arsenic helium perishes repeatedly. The trailer is present and our excitement couldn’t beryllium higher for this one.

Mickey 17, based connected the Edward Ashton book Mickey 7, follows a antheral named Mickey Barnes who, aft being scanned by a machine, is tasked with assisting successful colonizing an crystal planet. The mysterious machine’s intent is to reprint his assemblage repeatedly until his task is complete. Should Mickey conscionable his untimely extremity by drowning, freezing to death, oregon zombie buffalo, nary biggie. There’s much Mickey to spell astir truthful agelong arsenic lone 1 of him exists astatine a time—a paradox that becomes a occupation erstwhile a reprint survives his scheduled termination. What follows are aggregate versions of Mickey warring (or playing stone insubstantial scissors) to determine who volition proceed surviving portion contending with the crystal planet’s lethal situation and hostile lifeforms. In short, Mickey 17 is grade-A speculative fabrication with a baker’s twelve much Pattinsons to adhd to the ensuing drama.

In summation to Pattinson(s), the movie stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. On the accumulation extremity of things, Mickey 17 volition besides spot Oscar-nominated manager of photography Darius Khondji (Okja) connected board, alongside Oscar-nominated accumulation decorator Fiona Crombie (Cruella), Oscar-nominated exertion Jinmo Yang (Parasite), costume decorator Catherine George (Snowpiercer), ocular effects supervisor Dan Glass (The Matrix), and Jae-il Jung (Parasite) providing the film’s score.

Mickey 17 was initially slated to merchandise March 29, 2024, but was pushed back. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. delayed it owed to accumulation shifts during the SAG-AFTRA strike—though its caller merchandise model was astir apt for the best, considering it would person had to contend with Elio, Kung Fu Panda 4, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Godzilla and Kong.

Mickey 17 releases successful theaters January 31, 2025.

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