The primary trailer for Mickey 17 is right here and it seems unbelievable. The subsequent film from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, it’s a sci-fi clone-killing conceit in area that can make The Batman star Robert Pattinson the butt of the violent joke when it hits theaters January 31, 2025.
Primarily based on the 2022 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 follows the titular underdog performed by Pattinson as he indicators as much as be an “expendable” in some future dystopia. What which means is that he doubles as area janitor and science experiment, taking all essentially the most harmful jobs aboard a colony ship and allegedly contributing to humanity’s understanding of the universe each time he’s cloned, killed, and reborn in a brand new physique. Till finally a kind of clones doesn’t die and the Mickeys seemingly stand up.
Right here’s the trailer:
Alongside Pattinson is Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: Episode IX), Steven Yeun (Nope), Toni Collette (Hereditary), and Mark Ruffalo (Avengers). We’ve seen the clone concept performed out a bit in Christopher Nolan’s Status and Tom Cruise’s Fringe of Tomorrow (an adaptation of the manga All You Want is Kill). Right here, author and director Bong Joon-ho is taking it right into a sci-fi dystopia by way of Ashton’s e book not not like his English language breakout Snowpiercer about industrial class warfare on the finish of the world (which was additionally tailored from a novel).
Class warfare was additionally one of many themes of Parasite, Bong Joon-ho’s 2020 Oscar winner a few a poor household infiltrating the family of upper-class elites. It’s additionally good to see Pattinson persevering with to stretch his wings once more after his brooding portrayal of Bruce Wayne in the latest Batman film. With the surreal black-and-white thriller The Lighthouse, the previous Twilight actor proved he can steadiness on the knife’s fringe of comedy and horror in addition to anybody.
