The highly anticipated film "Mickey 17," directed by Bong Joon Ho, known for his Oscar-winning work on "Parasite," is generating considerable excitement following the release of its trailer. Starring Robert Pattinson as Mickey, the narrative revolves around a character who volunteers to be an expendable worker on perilous missions aimed at colonizing an icy planet . This premise raises intriguing questions about identity and mortality, particularly as Mickey undergoes repeated deaths and resurrections while retaining his memories. Such a concept challenges traditional notions of existence and selfhood in science fiction narratives.
Warner Bros. has released the trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” the long-awaited follow-up to the director’s best picture winner “Parasite.” Based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi thriller stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable” employee named Mickey Barnes.
In the novel, Mickey is sent on dangerous missions to colonize an ice planet. When one version of Mickey dies, a duplicate is created to replace him that retains most of his memories.
Bong is known for taking big swings like this. Between his Hitchcockian satires, Bong has filled time with special effects spectacles with deep wells of emotion, absurd humor, socio-political undercurrents, and bizarre creatures. To that end, the $150 million Mickey 17 looks like it surpasses the scale of Snowpiercer.
The movie is based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, about “a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim.” The book follows the seventh incarnation of the titular Mickey, but it appears in the movie he dies quite a few more times. In addition to Pattinson, it stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, and Thomas Turgoose.
“Mickey 17” is Bong’s first feature to be released following the massive success of his 2019 thriller “Parasite,” which followed a working-class Korean family that deceptively infiltrates the home of an affluent family. “Parasite” was the first foreign language film to win the Academy Award for best picture. The film also nabbed Oscars for original screenplay, director and international feature. Bong’s other notable films include “Snowpiecer,” “Okja,” “Memories of Murder,” “The Host” and “Mother.”
Pattinson recently starred in the title role of Matt Reeves’s “The Batman” in 2022, bringing a brooding sensibility to Bruce Wayne. His recent sci-fi credits include Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” and Claire Denis’ “High Life.”
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