Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson Sci-Fi Film, Gets Teaser and Release Date

The director of Parasite is again and now he’s acquired a Batman. Warner Bros. simply formally introduced that Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho is in manufacturing on the sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17, which stars Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. It’s on observe for a launch date of March 29, 2024, and together with the information comes a short teaser. Check it out.

WTF is which might be you questioning? Well, Mickey 17 is an adaptation of the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton. In the ebook, Mickey is a clone that’s used for harmful work. However, if one dies, it’s superb. They simply make one other Mickey—Mickey 1, 2, 3, you get it. In the ebook, Mickey 7 is regarded as lifeless, solely he isn’t, and he comes again and sees the subsequent Mickey, which doesn’t become good. Seems like this new model provides a number of extra clones to the combo. There’s no phrase if that’s the official plot of this movie but it surely’s prone to be one thing alongside these strains, with that Bong Joon Ho (who additionally wrote the script) spin the director introduced not simply to his latest Oscar winner, however Snowpiercer, The Host, Okja, and plenty of others.

Warner Bros. additionally annouced among the movie’s behind-the-scenes particular personnel. Oscar-nominated director of pictures Darius Khondji (Okja) is on board, together with Oscar-nominated manufacturing designer Fiona Crombie (Cruella), Oscar-nominated editor Jinmo Yang (Parasite), costume designer Catherine George (Snowpiercer), and visible results supervisor Dan Glass (The Matrix). Jae-il Jung (Parasite) is doing the rating.

Mickey 17 enters an already crowded March 2024 which incorporates the tentative releases of Disney’s Elio in addition to Kung Fu Panda 4, A Quiet Place: Day One, Godzilla and Kong, Mufasa: The Lion King, and the live-motion Snow White; it additionally shares the date with the third and last Spider-Verse film, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Talk about stiff competitors over a yr out!

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