Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first trailer for Bong Joon-ho's sci-fi black comedy Mickey 17.
Robert Pattinson leads the cast as Mickey Barnes, an “Expendable” onboard a colonising space mission. Desperate to leave Earth, he takes on undesirable tasks that subsequently result in his death. Afterwards, Barnes is regenerated and his memories are restored, ready for his next lethal assignment. However, when he unexpectedly survives a human expedition, he returns to base to find Mickey 18 already there.
Pattinson's other recent credits include Tenet (2020) and the titular role in The Batman (2022). He also voices the grey heron in the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron (2023).
Alongside Pattinson, Mickey 17 stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.
The film is the first feature from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-ho in six years. It is an adaptation of Edward Ashton's 2022 novel Mickey7. The director explained the name change at CinemaCon 2024, saying “The number is the number of times he died. I killed him ten times more.”
Joon-ho's last feature film, Parasite (2019), won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards. It became the first non-English language film to do so. His other films include the monster movie The Host (2006), the Chris Evans-starring Snowpiercer (2013), and Okja (2017).
Mickey 17 is a co-production between the United States and South Korea. It marks Joon-ho's third English-language film and his eighth picture overall.
Originally, Mickey 17 was set to open in theatres on 29th March 2024. However, due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, its release date was postponed. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire took Mickey 17‘s original place in the studio's release roster.
Mickey 17 will be released in UK cinemas on 31st January 2025.
