Mickey 17, a New Film From Bong Joon-ho
For his first movie since 2019’s Parasite, filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is coming out with a sci-fi dark comedy film called Mickey 17. The trailer is above and the synopsis from Wikipedia is:
Wanting to get out of Earth, Mickey Barnes signs up to be an “expendable”: a disposable employee where after one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of their memories intact. After one of his “multiples”, Mickey 17, unintentionally survived a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim, he goes head-to-head with a new multiple, Mickey 18.
Mickey 17 will be out in theaters in late January. I found the trailer for this from Aaron Stewart-Ahn, who says:
David Zaslav’s Warner Bros has been trying to bury Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi follow up to Parasite for over a year now, refused to let it play Cannes, and is now dumping it in January. Rumors are Robert Pattinson’s weirdo performance also bothered them which to me means it must be friggin’ awesome.
Per Wikipedia, production wrapped in late 2022 so yeah, it sounds like they didn’t know what to do with it.
Discussion 7 comments
There’s another movie with a similar premise which is also excellent but saying this is kinda a spoiler for that move so I’ll just say that Duncan Jones is also a good director so if you want to know you can find out!
Came to say the same thing! That movie was excellent and this sounds way too similar to that... not sure we needed another one.
the scene when he discovers himself in bed also brings to mind a similar scene in "Solaris" (2002 version, which sacrilegiously I liked better than 1972)
I also gained a newfound respect for Sam Rockwell's chops after watching a similar movie.
Honestly I wonder if that "other" movie might be part of the reason Warner Bros isn't sure when/how to release this, being so similar in concept.
I read the book and was interested in the movie, so I’ve been following with frustration as it kept getting delayed. They put out a teaser trailer last year announcing a release in March 2024 that never happened. The book was good but I felt no pull to read the sequel. The movie looks like great fun, though, and I can’t wait to see it.
Posting to say that I never would have thought this would be Robert Pattinson's career (Or Kristin Stewart's TBH) after watching the reaction to that first Twilight movie. He really excels at playing weirdos.
Dare I say, this looks like it could be a lot of fun.
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