Business scooper Daniel Richtman heard a rumor that director Bong Joon-ho and Warner Bros. are disagreeing over the sci-fi thriller Mickey 17
At one time, Warner Bros. was planning to provide director Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi thriller Mickey 17 a theatrical launch on March twenty ninth, 2024 – however then they bounced the film to January of 2025 and launched Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire on March twenty ninth as an alternative. Why the delay? In keeping with trade scooper Daniel Richtman, it’s rumored that Joon-ho and Warner Bros. are at odds over the director’s lower. Richtman wrote, “I hear Mickey 17 is delayed because Warner Bros. won’t let Bong Joon-ho release his director’s cut. They want to release a more ‘accessible’ version.”
This is probably not stunning for CinemaCon attendees to listen to. A trailer for Mickey 17 was proven at Cinema Con earlier this yr (we’ve the report HERE) and a few who noticed the footage felt that the film “could either be totally amazing or a complete disaster.”
This sci-fi thriller is the primary movie Bong has made since his 2019 movie Parasite gained Greatest Image and he gained the Greatest Director and Greatest Authentic Screenplay Academy Awards. It’s based mostly on a novel by Edward Ashton that was referred to as Mickey7, however they modified the quantity for the title of the variation.
Right here’s a plot synopsis for Mickey 17: Every 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.
The movie stars Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie, and Mark Ruffalo.
The novel Mickey7 (which you should purchase at THIS LINK) has the next description: Dying isn’t any enjoyable… however not less than it’s a residing. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable worker on a human expedition despatched to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Every 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 lifeless. 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 are going to possible be thrown into the recycler for protein. Mickey7 should hold his double a secret from the remainder of the colony. In the meantime, life on Niflheim is getting worse. The ambiance is unsuitable for people, meals is in brief provide, and terraforming goes poorly. The native species are rising interested in their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Finally, the survival of each lifeforms will come right down to Mickey7. That’s, if he can simply hold from dying for good.
Bong wrote, directed, and produced Mickey 17 for his manufacturing firm Offscreen, together with Kate Road Image Firm’s Dooho Choi and Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, a part of the latter’s total cope with Warner Bros.
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