Bong Joon Ho, the director behind Parasite and the upcoming Mickey 17, isn’t precisely itching to leap into the world of franchise filmmaking… until, after all, it includes a Xenomorph belting out present tunes.
Bong was lately requested about leaping into franchise undertaking and he advised the Los Angeles Instances: “I am not drawn to franchise movies, however I did suppose at one level that I wish to do an Alien movie,” earlier than including… “An Alien musical.”
I think about he’s half-joking there. However the thought of Bong Joon Ho directing a sci-fi horror musical set within the Alien universe is bizarrely fascinating. Whereas one thing like this can by no means occur, your creativeness can no run wild with what an Alien musical would appear to be.
For now, although, Bong is targeted on Mickey 17, his adaptation of Edward Ashton’s novel. The movie stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable,” a employee whose consciousness is uploaded into a brand new physique each time he dies—till two variations of him exist on the similar time.
The e-book Mickey 7 has a sequel, however don’t count on Bong to dive into franchise territory there, both. “After I was having a Zoom speak with Ed [Ashton], and he was telling me about it, and you recognize, he is such an ideal, fascinating author, I might like to tackle the problem however to be sincere, I’ve a plethora of recent, bizarre concepts that I need to deal with, so I wish to transfer on to these moderately than a sequel,” he defined.
So whereas the concept of a Bong Joon Ho-directed Alien musical will without end reside in our imaginations, not less than we all know he has loads of different bizarre, authentic concepts nonetheless coming our method.
Now, I’ll go away you with this:
