The new film from the South Korean, Oscar winner for ‘Parasites’, has Robert Pattinson as the protagonist and is already among the most anticipated projects of 2024.
Bong Joon-Ho will once again conquer Hollywood with ‘Mickey 17’, his new film starring Robert Pattinson and that already has a release date, synopsis and trailer. Now, we’ll have to be a little patient, because it won’t arrive until 2024. Candidate to become one of Bong Joon-ho’s best movies? The director has certainly not let us down yet.
After leaving his mark on the North American industry thanks to his victory at the 2020 Oscars with the acclaimed ‘Parasites’, South Korean director teams up with Warner Bros. Pictures to adapt Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel ‘Mickey7’, which was published last February 2022 in the United States. Let’s remember that the filmmaker is no stranger to international productions after having faced titles like ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘Okja’ (one of the best Netflix original films), and in this new project it seems that he will continue playing with futuristic worlds In the vein of the best science fiction movies.
Here we collect everything we know about ‘Mickey 17’ so far.
‘Mickey 17’: release date
Warner Bros. already has its place on the calendar: the release date of ‘Mickey 17’ will be March 29, 2024.
‘Mickey 17’: synopsis
Specific details of the film’s story are unknown at the moment, but we can be guided by the source material on which it is based. Although, of course, we can’t trust too much either: for starters, the title has already changed (the book is called ‘Mickey7’, while the movie is ‘Mickey 17’) and we know that Bong Joon-Ho is the kind of director who can take someone else’s story and make it his own. Still, let’s take a look at the book.
Written by Edward Ashton, ‘Mickey7’ is described as a cerebral thriller somewhere between ‘The Martian’ and ‘Dark Matter’ (according to the words of the North American publisher St. Martin Press, which published the first edition), with a mixture of fantasy and science fiction loaded with possibilities.
The history introduces us to an “expendable”, that is, a disposable employee in a human expedition sent to colonize the frozen world of Nifheim. This employee (whom we imagine will be played by Pattinson) refuses to let the clone of him created to replace him, named Mickey 8, take his place.
In a previously published review (via Variety), writer Jason Pargin said the novel was “a unique blend of thought-provoking science fiction concepts” and “keeps everything grounded through a protagonist experiencing the wonders of interstellar travel and extraterrestrial contact while literally having the worst job in the universe.” Pargin says, very positively: “The result is alternately funny, intriguing and terrifying, and each chapter seems to involve a different part of your brain.”
‘Mickey 17’: who will be in the cast?
Robert Pattinson will star in ‘Mickey 17’. The actor, who has released ‘The Batman’ this year, continues to expand his enviable list of great directors with whom he has worked (Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, Christopher Nolan, James Gray and more) and promises to shine again in this long-awaited project .
Together with him, they have joined the cast Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Perhaps there will be more confirmations in the coming months.
‘Mickey 17’: the first teaser trailer
This is what the first images of the film look like:
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