Mickey 17, a New Film From Bong Joon-ho

Mickey 17, a New Movie From Bong Joon-ho

For his first film since 2019’s Parasite, filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is popping out with a sci-fi darkish comedy movie known as Mickey 17. The trailer is above and the synopsis from Wikipedia is:

Desirous to get out of Earth, Mickey Barnes indicators as much as be an “expendable”: a disposable worker the place after one iteration dies, a brand new physique is regenerated with most of their recollections intact. After one in all his “multiples”, Mickey 17, unintentionally survived a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim, he goes head-to-head with a brand new a number of, Mickey 18.

Mickey 17 shall be out in theaters in late January. I discovered the trailer for this from Aaron Stewart-Ahn, who says:

David Zaslav’s Warner Bros has been making an attempt to bury Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi observe as much as Parasite for over a yr now, refused to let it play Cannes, and is now dumping it in January. Rumors are Robert Pattinson’s weirdo efficiency additionally bothered them which to me means it should be friggin’ superior.

Per Wikipedia, manufacturing wrapped in late 2022 so yeah, it feels like they didn’t know what to do with it.