Robert Pattinson is dying to avoid wasting mankind within the newest trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17

“Not a single one of my films has ever been released without some change in its release date,” Parasite director Bong Joon Ho advised Display Every day earlier this month, and it seems his newest off-the-wall characteristic, Mickey 17, isn’t any totally different. After getting delayed a number of occasions, Mickey 17 involves theaters on April 18, 2025, however not earlier than the movie’s newest trailer teases the sci-fi journey to come back.

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 last word dedication to the job… to die, for a residing.” Along with Robert Pattinson as the assorted Mickeys, the movie additionally stars Steve Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, and Naomi Ackie. It’s based mostly on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, with Bong Joon-ho writing the script and directing.

In the present day’s Mickey 17 trailer finds Robert Pattinson performing some vocal gymnastics to provide his character a novel voice. With a folksy cadence, Mickey applies to turn into an “Expendable.” Nonetheless, he fails to learn the high quality print and shortly will get cloned to carry out one harmful job after the following. When Mickey discovers two variations of himself are working rampant, he must determine which one will keep whereas the opposite should go. Sadly for Mickey, the folks in command of the clones are additionally conscious of the error and gained’t hesitate to delete one or the opposite Mickey with out prejudice.

Simply final month, the MPA Classification and Score Administration gave Mickey 17 an R-rating for “violent content, language throughout, sexual content and drug material.” We catch a little bit of this in immediately’s trailer, as Mickey meets his finish in a number of grotesque accidents starting from getting limbs sliced off by area particles and getting devoured by area aliens.

I’m enthusiastic about this one. I’ve been on a science-fiction kick currently after catching up with Silo on Apple TV+ and beginning my first watch of The Expanse. I am keen on Bong Joon Ho’s warped thoughts and might’t wait to see what he’s cooking with Mickey 17.

In regards to the Writer

Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a JoBlo.com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. He began with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, earlier than launching the companion YouTube sequence Animation Films Revisited. He is additionally the host of the Speaking Comics Podcast, a personality-driven audio present specializing in comedian books, movie, music, and extra. You may not often catch him with out headphones on his head and pancakes on his breath.