The discharge of Bong Joon-ho’s extremely anticipated sci-fi film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson has been pushed to April 2025.
Sadly, we’ll have to attend a bit of longer to see Bong Joon-ho’s extremely anticipated sci-fi film Mickey 17, as Warner Bros. has pushed the discharge date again by three months. Mickey 17 was beforehand slated to hit theaters on January 31, 2025, however the movie has been given a brand new launch date of April 18, 2025, filling the slot beforehand held by Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic.
This shift may even enable the movie to display screen in IMAX. “When the April 18 date became available, we quickly moved to secure it for Mikey 17. We’re thrilled with the new date, and very happy the film will be available to audiences in Imax,” mentioned a Warner Bros. spokesperson, “With January 31 now out there with a full Imax footprint, we’re additionally very comfortable to have Companion releasing on this new date.“
The official synopsis for Mickey 17 reads: “From the Academy Award-winning writer/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.” Along with Robert Pattinson as the varied Mickeys, the movie additionally stars Steve Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, and Naomi Ackie. It’s primarily based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, with Bong Joon-ho writing the script and directing.
Simply final month, the MPA Classification and Ranking Administration gave Mickey 17 an R-rating for “violent content, language throughout, sexual content and drug material.” We caught a bit of of this within the trailer for the movie, as Mickey met his finish in a number of ugly accidents starting from getting limbs sliced off by house particles and being devoured by house aliens.
I’m fairly excited in regards to the movie, however there have been rumblings that Warner Bros. wasn’t fairly certain what to make of it. Mickey 17 was initially imagined to be launched again in March, however it wound up being taken off the schedule completely earlier than making the shift to 2025. Some have claimed that the explanation for the delay is that the studio received’t let Bong Joon-ho launch his director’s minimize, however as a substitute need to launch a “more accessible” model of the film.
