Lastly, after six years of ready, Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to Parasite is sort of right here.
Titled Mickey 17, primarily based on a novel by Edward Ashton, it’s a surreal sci-fi story a few man (Robert Pattinson) who agrees to a harmful job the place if (extra like when) he dies he’ll be introduced again to life after which compelled to maintain working. After which when he dies once more, the method repeats once more. Because the title suggests, poor Mickey has executed this again and again and over.
The primary trailer for Mickey 17 simply debuted — watch it beneath.
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This film has been a very long time coming; the primary official picture from the movie debuted manner again in December of 2022. And Bong’s Parasite gained the Academy Award for Finest Image in early 2020 — proper earlier than the beginning of the Covid pandemic. So it’s been fairly some time ready to see how he would attempt to prime it.
This isn’t Bong’s first elaborate sci-fi movie. In 2013 he made Snowpiercer, a dystopian sci-fi movie a few group of survivors of a local weather apocalypse struggling to outlive on a practice that by no means stops amidst a brand new Ice Age.
Right here is the movie’s official synopsis:
From the Academy Award-winning author/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his subsequent groundbreaking cinematic expertise, “Mickey 17.” The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has discovered himself within the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who calls for the final word dedication to the job… to die, for a residing.
Mickey 17 is scheduled to open in theaters on January 31, 2025. It’s form of stunning, given Parasite’s awards monitor document, that Warner Bros. elected to not put this out as an end-of-year, awards-y sort title. Make of that what you’ll.
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