“Parasite” director Bong Joon-Ho dropped by the Colosseum stage in Las Vegas for Warner Bros.‘ CinemaCon presentation to supply his first full have a look at “Mickey 17,” his formidable sci-fi starring Robert Pattinson. Although the trailer seen in Vegas wasn’t launched on-line after the presentation, this was the primary have a look at it since a teaser was launched in December 2022, so we’ve been ready some time.
Although the film was pushed again from a launch this yr to now open in January 2025, we’re impressed by what we noticed in Vegas. And Warner Bros. movie heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy championed the movie’s unimaginable sci-fi imaginative and prescient. They additional introduced that it will likely be launched in IMAX.
The trailer was a tongue-in-cheek, screwball dystopia of kinds, all scored to Frank Sinatra’s “Ain’t {That a} Kick Within the Head.” We see Pattinson as Mickey, who’s an Expendable: a disposable worker on a human expedition despatched to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Every time a mission is simply too harmful — even suicidal — the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a brand new physique is regenerated with most of his reminiscences intact.
“As an expendable, they made me work my ass off on one mission after one other,” Pattinson’s character says within the trailer. “Even on my seventeenth go-around, I hate dying.”
The twist is that Mickey 17 inadvertently occurs to be alive similtaneously Mickey 18, with Pattinson in a twin function every with totally different accents, that results in much more mayhem because the individuals of this society need to cope with his “multiples.” Steven Yeun’s character even means that they merely play “Rock Paper Scissors” and kill the losers.
Bong defined on the CinemaCon stage that the e-book on which the movie relies known as “Mickey 7” however they modified it to “Mickey 17” as a result of, properly, “I killed him 10 occasions extra.” He additionally mentioned he forged Pattinson, who joined him on stage in Vegas, that “he’s obtained a loopy factor in his eyes.”
Bong assembled a forged that additionally contains Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo for the movie he wrote, directed, and produced primarily based on the novel by Edward Ashton. “Mickey 17” is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bong Joon-Ho, and Dooho Choi.
“Mickey 17” opens in theaters January 31, 2025. It’s unclear if the movie might be screened at any festivals previous to its large theatrical launch from Warner Bros.