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Movie Name: Mickey 17
Directed by: Bong Joon-ho
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
Running Time: 139 Minutes
Release Date: March 07, 2025
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Languages: English
Production House: Plan B Entertainment, Kate Street Picture Company, Offscreen
Budget: $150 million
Mickey 17, known as an “expendable,” goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
Mickey 17: Movie Overview
Mickey 17 is an upcoming science fiction black comedy film written, directed, and co-produced by Bong Joon-ho, based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The film stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.
Mickey 17 is scheduled to be theatrically released on March 07, 2025 in South Korea, followed by the rest of the world on January 31, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Wanting to get out of Earth, Mickey Barnes signs up to be an “expendable”: a disposable employee where after one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of their memories intact. After one of his “multiples”, Mickey 17, unintentionally survives a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim, he goes head-to-head with a new multiple, Mickey 18.
A film adaptation of Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7 was announced to be in development in January 2022, with Bong Joon-ho writing, directing, and producing for Warner Bros. Pictures. Robert Pattinson was in talks to star in the film at the time of the announcement. Pattinson was confirmed to star in May 2022, with Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo joining the cast. In July, Steven Yeun was added to the cast.
Production began at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden on August 2, 2022 and concluded in December 2022.
Charles Yu wrote additional literary material for the film.
Mickey 17 is set to be released in the United States on January 31, 2025 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was originally scheduled to be theatrically released on March 29, 2024. However, it was indefinitely taken off the release schedule in January 2024 due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike and delays in post-production, with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire instead taking over the date, before the film received its new date a month later. In March 2024, it was announced that the film would be released in South Korea on January 28, 2025, three days before its global release.
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Movie Review:
Robert Pattinson is sweet, sour, seventeen and everything in between
Swinging wildly from sharp social satire to broad comedy, from dystopian nightmare to glorious creature-feature, Bong Joon-ho’s post-’Parasite’ offering is riotously entertaining
It is well-nigh impossible to celebrate just one aspect of Bong Joon-ho’s adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, Mickey7 — Joon-ho apparently called the film Mickey 17 for the pleasure of killing Robert Pattinson 10 more times. Every aspect of Mickey 17, from the writing (Joon-ho wrote the screenplay from an early draft of the novel) to the acting as well as cinematographer Darius Khondji’s lovely frames (that severed, floating hand is singed on the brain) and those delightful creepy crawlies with their wriggling legs and many mouths, is laudable.
In the near future, 2054 to be precise, Mickey (Robert Pattinson) and his slimy, childhood friend, Timo (Steven Yeun), run afoul of a particularly vicious loan shark. Their only escape seems to be off earth. Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) is a tyrannical politician who has lost the last two elections. Marshall, with his equally sketchy wife, Ylfa (Toni Collette), have set course to colonise Nilfheim, a planet of ice and snow.
In the future, technology has advanced to 3D printing human beings, but thanks to all the ethical issues (brought to life in the case of the psychopathic scientist), it is banned on earth. Human beings are only printed as “expendables” to do dangerous work off earth.
Marshall’s Nilfheim-colonising project offers a chance of escape for Mickey and Timo, who naturally gets himself a pilot gig. Mickey, meanwhile, signs up to be an expendable, without fully reading the paperwork, which he realises to his mild horror as Gemma (Holliday Grainger) explains his part in the larger scheme of things.
Mickey meets and falls in love with Nasha (Naomi Ackie), who stays by him through his 16 deaths as the science officer, Arkady (Cameron Britton), develops vaccines and sundry defenses for life at Nilfheim. Everything changes when Mickey 17 is ordered to get a specimen of the life form on Nilfheim, the many-legged and mouthed creeper that is not allowing full colonisation.
When he falls through an ice crevice and is overrun by a multitude of creepers, he is presumed dead and Mickey 18 is printed. Mickey 17, however, survives and is shocked to find his aggressive double. The penalty for duplicates is immediate death to every version and suddenly Mickey is fighting himself as well as others who want him dead or doubled.
Pattinson is a revelation as different iterations of Mickey, clearly differentiating between the simple Mickey 17 and his belligerent double. Ruffalo, with his lisp and too-white teeth, is riveting as media-hungry Marshall, while Collette with her scary nails and penchant for sauce is mesmeric.
The many themes — including environmentalism, corporates taking over human beings and colonisation at the cost of indigenous populations — jostling for screen space, probably dilutes the message, but also proves to be Mickey 17’s strength as it bounces from concept to theory to genre in audacious leaps. And yes, Mickey 17 conclusively proves the fact that no amount of Pattinsons is too much.
