Robert Pattinson Leads Bong Joon Ho’s Sci-Fi Film

Warner Bros. has launched the trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” the long-awaited follow-up to the director’s greatest image winner “Parasite.” Primarily based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi thriller stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable” worker named Mickey Barnes.

Within the novel, Mickey is distributed on harmful missions to colonize an ice planet. When one model of Mickey dies, a replica is created to switch him that retains most of his reminiscences.

Together with Pattinson, the solid contains Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.

“Mickey 17” is directed and written by Bong, who additionally produces via his firm Offscreen. Further producers embody Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B and Dooho Choi of Kate Avenue Photos.

Warner Bros. has nudged “Mickey 17” just a few occasions on its theatrical schedule, most not too long ago bumping the movie from a March 29, 2024, date to its present January 2025 slot. When the transfer was introduced, sources instructed Selection that the choice was made to safe an Imax launch window and permit extra time to complete the undertaking, which had been affected as a result of Hollywood strikes and numerous manufacturing shifts.

“Mickey 17” is Bong’s first function to be launched following the huge success of his 2019 thriller “Parasite,” which adopted a working-class Korean household that deceptively infiltrates the house of an prosperous household. “Parasite” was the primary international language movie to win the Academy Award for greatest image. The movie additionally nabbed Oscars for authentic screenplay, director and worldwide function. Bong’s different notable movies embody “Snowpiecer,” “Okja,” “Reminiscences of Homicide,” “The Host” and “Mom.”

Pattinson not too long ago starred within the title position of Matt Reeves’s “The Batman” in 2022, bringing a brooding sensibility to Bruce Wayne. His current sci-fi credit embody Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” and Claire Denis’ “Excessive Life.”

“Mickey 17” will probably be launched in theaters Jan. 31, 2025. Watch the trailer under.