Summary
- Robert Pattinson and director Bong Joon-Ho presented a teaser and details about their mind-bending film,
Mickey 17
, at CinemaCon. -
Mickey 17
is a story about a man cloned and killed for labor, “a strange hero’s journey,” according to Bong. - Pattinson’s role in
Mickey 17
is described as someone with low expectations challenged by life’s forces, an “expendable” person forced to reckon with his own identity.
Robert Pattinson has surprised audiences at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, appearing at Caesar’s Palace with Academy-Award winning director Bong Joon-Ho (Host, Mother) to unveil the trailer for their mind-bending head trip of a film, Mickey 17. The pair spoke about the highly anticipated new film (which supposedly won’t hit theaters until Jan. 31, 2025), which is the first since 2019’s Parasite, which won Bong Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature.
“I’m happy we can show the trailer on a big screen — and not on mobile phones,” said Bong to rapturous applause. The filmmaker (via Deadline) explained the film as, “a story about a simple man who ultimately ends up saving the world. It’s a strange type of hero’s journey.”
Mickey 17
- Director
- Bong Joon Ho
- Writers
- Edward Ashton , Bong Joon Ho
- Studio
- Kate Street Picture Company, Offscreen, Plan B Entertainment
The film, based on Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey 7, follows a man employed as an “expendable,” someone who is cloned and killed and cloned again many times as human labor on a cosmic colonization project. When one clone ends up surviving as another is sent to take his place, the Mickeys are forced to face off or team up. Pattinson boasted to the audience:
I’ve been the biggest fan of Bong for many, many years; he’s my hero. I got sent the script; I was told, ‘You’re gonna love the script, but the part is impossible.’ That was very, very exciting to me. I thought it was the most unusual, bizarre, funny script.
The film also stars Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Ackie, and Steven Yeun alongside Pattinson as the titular character. “Mickey 17 is someone who has the lowest expectations of his life, and yet the world keeps pushing those expectations, to the point where he has a job that tortures him every day,” continued Pattinson at CinemaCon. “And then 18 comes along, and he’s got frontal lobe damage and no self-control, libido out of control. It’s like playing an evil brother or twin.” Pattinson previously told ES Magazine:
“It’s with Parasite director Bong Joon-ho and it’s like nothing I’ve ever done before. The movie is so crazy, it’s a completely different style of working. It’s so much talking.”
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