No listing of probably the most anticipated motion pictures of 2024 can be full (at the least in my eyes) with out Mickey 17, which is director Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited follow-up to his Oscar profitable Parasite. The film stars Robert Pattinson and is a sci-fi journey a few “disposable worker” on an area flight to an alien world. However … is the film nonetheless popping out in 2024? Let’s hope so.
In late December 2022, Warner Bros. introduced the challenge with an early teaser and a launch date: March 29, 2024. However now Warners has pulled the movie from its schedule. In line with Selection, the explanation for the delay is “to permit extra time to complete the challenge, which had been affected as a result of final yr’s strikes and different numerous manufacturing shifts.”
Instead, Warner Bros. is transferring up one other of its huge spring sci-fi movies: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire will now open on March 29 as an alternative of April 12 as was initially deliberate. (Clearly Godzilla and King Kong labored by the actors’ strike.)
Right here was that early teaser for Mickey 17. It stays actually the one glimpse of the movie we’ve seen thus far:
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Right here was the official synopsis for the novel that Mickey 17 is predicated on:
Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable worker on a human expedition despatched to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Each time there’s a mission that’s too harmful—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a brand new physique is regenerated with most of his recollections intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the phrases of his deal…and why it was the one colonial place unfilled when he took it. On a reasonably routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes lacking and is presumed useless. By the point he returns to the colony base, surprisingly helped again by native life, Mickey7’s destiny has been sealed. There’s a brand new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties. The concept of duplicate Expendables is universally loathed, and if caught, they’ll seemingly be thrown into the recycler for protein. Mickey7 should maintain his double a secret from the remainder of the colony. In the meantime, life on Niflheim is getting worse. The environment is unsuitable for people, meals is in brief provide, and terraforming goes poorly. The native species are rising inquisitive about their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Finally, the survival of each lifeforms will come all the way down to Mickey7.
Hopefully the movie is rescheduled rapidly and does come to theaters a while this yr. Let’s additionally hope that the explanations for the delay are completely logistical and never disagreements over the film’s inventive route. Bong Joon-ho deserves to make precisely the Parasite follow-up he desires, and I’m positive each single particular person studying this desires to see Mickey 17 he desires to make.
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