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Most of us know Academy Award winner Bong Joon-ho for his direction in Parasite (2019), the first foreign-language film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
He is returning with his first feature film, Mickey 17, based on Edward Ashton's novel Mickey 7 (2022). Fans are excited to experience another mind-bending movie in January 2025.
Plot
Since the movie is an adaptation, reading the novel might spoil the whole film. But still, it's Bong Joon-ho we are talking about; he must have included something from the book that would blow our minds at the theatre.
Mickey Barnes, the story's main protagonist, is an employee in a colonist ship, "Drakkar", set to colonize a frozen planet called "Niflheim."
Now, Mickey's job is to do any mission that is dangerous for him and will cost him his life. But there is nothing to worry about; if he dies, he is reborn with memories stored before the mission.
Employees like these are called "Expendables." So, Mickey, an expendable, is entitled to do anything necessary to colonize Niflheim.
The story climaxes when Mickey 7 returns from a dangerous scouting mission, presumed dead by his crewmates.
When he returns to his quarter, he finds out another Mickey has already been regenerated, sequence-wise Mickey8. Now, two expendables cannot exist together; if the crews find out, they will get rid of either of them if things go south.
At the same time, colonization faced many issues, such as controlling native people and some creatures living on that planet.
The story ahead gets more complex and reveals more of its mysteries. We will find out in the theatre more about what Bong Joon-ho did with his unique storytelling.
Another fact is that the author Edward Ashton published a sequel to Mickey 7 in March 2023 called "Antimatter Blues." Depending on the box-office success of Mickey 17, we might also get a sequel to the movie.
Cast and crews
Mickey 17 is filled with star-casts, starting with our main character, played by Robert Pattinson from The Batman, Tenet, and Lighthouse.
Then comes Steven Yeun from Invincible as Berto, Mark Ruffalo from Poor Things and Avengers as Marshall, Naomi Ackie from Star Wars: A Rise of a Skywalker as Nasha Adjaya, Toni Collette from Hereditary as Gwen Johansen, and many more.
The screenplay had been written by the author, Edward Ashton himself. Cinematographer Darius Khondji, editor Yang Jin-mo, and music composer Jung Jae-il teamed up with the filmmaker following their collaboration on Parasite (2019) and Okja (2017).
Mickey 17 was initially scheduled to be released in the United States on March 29, 2024. But Warner Bros. changed the slot with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, moving up its release and delaying Mickey 17 to January 2025.