Robert Pattinson is sacrificing himself for science, actually, within the trailer for Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17. Within the clip, Pattinson performs a person named Mickey who volunteers to be an “expendable” and is topic to repeated deaths in a futuristic world.
The comedic trailer, which sees the British Pattinson doing an uncommon American accent, exhibits Mickey compelled to die in violent methods within the title of analysis, together with his physique replicated every time he kicks the bucket. Ultimately, although, two Mickeys exist directly, inflicting each chaos and pleasure.
The movie, which additionally stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo, marks Joon Ho’s highly-anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning drama Parasite. It’s primarily based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton and can arrive in theaters on Jan. 31, 2025.
The official synopsis notes, “From the Academy Award-winning author/director of Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, comes his subsequent groundbreaking cinematic expertise, Mickey 17. The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has discovered himself within the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who calls for the last word dedication to the job… to die, for a dwelling.”
Joon Ho received three Oscars for Parasite, which got here out in 2019, together with Greatest Director. He beforehand helmed Okja, Snowpiercer, and The Host. A number of of his longtime collaborators, together with cinematographer Darius Khondji and editor Yang Jinmo, additionally labored on Mickey 17.
Pattinson most lately starred as Bruce Wayne in The Batman and lent his voice to the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated movie The Boy and the Heron.