22 January 2025

Thank you, Seoul pic.twitter.com/XQuoRTZvwo

— Mickey 17 (@Mickey17Movie) January 22, 2025

Sarang = Bong & Rob pic.twitter.com/8CknlaKLR8

— Mickey 17 (@Mickey17Movie) January 22, 2025

16 January 2025

Deadline is reporting that a third trailer for Mickey17 is about to drop:

Which leads us to the much-delayed $80M Mickey 17, Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s next movie that was finished in January 2023 and has changed release dates four times (March 29, 2024, followed by January 31, 2025, Easter weekend April 18, and finally March 7). Bong gets final cut and has been working on the ideal cut, collaborating with the studio on its suggestions. Tracking services are concerned that the first two trailers didn’t exactly set the world on fire

While two trailers have generated more than 41M views per social media analytics firm RelishMix, the trailer’s viral rate is low at 6:1 next to Superman‘s massive 317:1 and Minecraft‘s 50:1. At the same time, when it comes to director Bong, the filmmaker has few box office comps, his highest being his multi-Oscar-winning Parasite at $262M. Much like Robert Eggers found a growing fanbase in Nosferatu, the hope is that Bong will experience a similar boom. Tracking sources tell us that the movie’s draw rests largely on star Robert Pattinson’s shoulders, and the new release date allows The Batman actor to promote the project. A third trailer will drop soon in an attempt to reignite the campaign for the film about the comedic astronaut who dies several times.

We posted a few days ago that Empire had an exclusive edition featuring Mickey17. Thanks to Chrissy sending me the scans below we can now read the full feature. I love how Bong refers to Rob focussing on the project and his character as watching “a beast go after its prey”.

PS. I forgot to post the subscriber version of the cover the other day – so here it is

7 April 2023

Bong Joon-Ho participated in a Master Class at the Florence Korean Film Festival in Italy on 6 April 2023 and had this to say about Mickey17:

K-Odyssey:

Director Bong also addressed that he worked on a new movie “Mickey 17” outside London in 2022, “It’s a SF movie, and it’s an upscale movie however it incorporates my style and feel to it,” adding, “There are many ridiculous characters which are not a superheroes.”

La Stamp (Italy)

Bong Joon-ho’s latest project is Mickey 17: “It wasn’t difficult to get used to a foreign production again, there are funny characters, it’s clear that I did it!”.

TaxiDrivers

“Last year we were on this set in London. I had no difficulty getting used to it again after Snowpiercer and this time too I did the storyboarding. Mickey 17 may be a science fiction film, but you will immediately understand that I made it because you recognize my style. There are funny, awkward, stupid characters.”

2 September 2022

Edward Ashton teasing us today about his visit to the Mickey7 set. For anyone who has read the book, like me, we know this is gonna be one hell of a film. I cannot wait to see Rob play Mickey7 and Mickey8 and how Bong Joon Ho interprets the story.

UPDATE: 28 April 2022

So Edward Ashton tweeted out movieweb’s article on Mickey7. I’ve got this book lined up to read next and am so looking forward to it. Although Rob still hasn’t officially been confirmed (Bong Joon would be nuts not to secure him), this is what Movieweb had to say:

Set in a future where humans are colonizing distant planets and cloning is a reality, the upcoming film will mark Bong’s first foray into intergalactic science fiction. His previous sci-fi films have been strictly terrestrial.

This should be an interesting change of pace from the realistic class comedy/drama/horror Parasite, but don’t expect the auteur to lay off on the earthly social commentary: Bong has explored many genres and has always grounded his films in contemporary satire, no matter how fantastical the story. He has a deep understanding of the relationship between genre tropes and sociology and has used movie formulas to explicitly explore themes implicit in the genres themselves (e.g., environmental terror and neglect in the monster movie are made overt in the Host (2006), while class inequality and social Darwinism in the dystopian sci-fi thriller is explored and subverted in Snowpiercer (2013), Bong’s first English language film).

The Mickey7 novel is full of ideas about labor, corporate control, and colonialism, all told through the protagonist’s gallows humor. There’s plenty of room for Bong’s satire and directorial trademarks to shine through.

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Robert Pattinson is in talks to star in the new film. This will mark the first collaboration between the actor and Bong Joon-Ho, but the pair seem like an excellent match. Pattinson has established his acting chops, shedding the pretty boy image cultivated in the Twilight Films and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In recent years Pattinson has worked predominantly in auteur-driven cinema, kinetic films with brooding atmosphere, and occasionally absurd humor, such as Good Time (2017) and the Lighthouse (2019). While both of those films are utterly unique, they share common artistry, tension, and strangeness with the films of Bong Joon-Ho, and Pattinson is no doubt up for the plunge into his dark, chaotic world. Though little is known about the casting (or the screenplay), we can assume that Pattinson will take on the role of Mickey and his various incarnations.