Bad news for those counting down the days until next month’s release of Mickey 17: Warner Bros. Pictures has delayed the release of Bong Joon-ho’s (Parasite, Snowpiercer: Le Transperceneige) next feature by almost a year.
The sci-fi thriller starring Robert Pattinson, still without a poster, trailer, and just one 32-second teaser, was actually supposed to be released on March 29th. Its release date has been pushed back to 31 January 2025 in the US (and 19 January 2025 here) – ten months later than originally planned.
That delay now benefits Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire , which has pushed its release date back two weeks to take the vacated March 29, 2024 slot in the US (the film will be released on April 3 in France. ).
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The reason for this delay? The production of the film was affected by the 2023 Hollywood strikes. Among other changes, it would have required more time in post-production. However, with this new release date comes an IMAX broadcast, which the previous date did not allow. This release will coincide with the Lunar New Year, which is especially celebrated in China and South Korea, the director’s home country.
What do we know about Mickey 17?
Adaptation of the novel Mickey 7 By Edward Ashton, released in 2022, the film follows Mickey 7, a “sacrificial” individual sent to colonize a frozen planet – at his expense. However, each time he dies, his memories are implanted into a new body and his mission is renewed. After dying six times, Mickey7 begins to understand the true purpose of his mission…
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with additions Robert PattinsonToni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun and Naomi Aki will join the prestigious cast of the first feature film. Bong Joon-ho After a parasite It became the first non-English-language film to win an Oscar for Best Picture in 2020 – in addition to winning Oscars for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay for Jin-Mo Young, Best International Film and the Palme d’Or at Cannes. And many other awards…
So we’ll have to wait a little longer to discover this adventure, which promises to be quite unique. Meanwhile, Parasite can be rediscovered on VOD.
Source: Allocine
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