Warner Bros. Footage confirmed at this time that Snowpiercer and The Host writer-director Bong Joon-ho is at present capturing his follow-up to his Finest Image-winning 2019 class satire Parasite. The movie, a science fiction story known as Mickey 17, will star Robert Pattinson within the title function. No abstract of the film’s plot was instantly out there, however Warner Bros. studies that Bong wrote the script as an adaptation of the 2022 e book Mickey 7, by Edward Ashton. Marvel Cinematic Universe star Mark Ruffalo will co-star, alongside Nope’s Steven Yeun, Hereditary star Toni Collette, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s Naomi Ackie.
Mickey 7 facilities on a cloned employee, known as an “Expendable,” who turns into conscious by means of a number of iterations of his life that he’s being despatched on a sequence of extremely harmful missions as a result of he’s simply replaceable. After one among these missions, he returns to find that his substitute, Mickey 8, has already reported for obligation. It’s a situation that will instantly deliver earlier films to thoughts for sci-fi followers — Duncan Jones’ Moon and Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion each function “disposable” house staff studying disagreeable truths about their mission and their state of affairs.
Bong is more likely to have his personal sturdy spin on this materials, given his behavior of placing his personal life and work into films like Parasite. (Look, he’s already added 10 whole-ass Mickeys to the equation.) Ashton’s situation appears notably nicely suited to a writer-director who’s persistently made films about class and revenue inequity, society’s decrease courses and outcasts, and the wrestle to search out justice and recognition in an imbalanced society. The concept of a employee created to serve extra privileged folks, and die for them within the course of, appears proper up his alley. We’ll have to attend greater than a 12 months to see what his model of the story appears like, although. Mickey 17 is slated for worldwide launch on March 29, 2024.
