Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) will soon be back with the long-awaited Mickey 17, an adaptation of the sci-fi novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. A new trailer has arrived to show more of its title character (and the other guy who looks just like him), as well as the film’s darkly comedic tone.
Robert Pattinson (The Batman) leads the film as Mickey Barnes, who signs up to work himself to death over and over again. The how is the catch: he’s in a constant assembly line of himself, repeatedly deployed on dangerous tests as part of a new human colony on a far-flung planet. Academy Award nominees Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things) get to chew more scenery as some very important people running the program that Mickey’s a part of.
When it becomes apparent Mickey 17 is giving more than what he thought he signed up for, after death after death playing the mission’s danger-tester, he decides to fight back alongside well… himself. Turns out somehow a Mickey 18 was also printed out and some doppelgänger hijinks ensue. Watch the latest trailer for the film below.
The film also stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey 18 (obviously), as well as Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker), and Steven Yeun (Nope).
From the looks of this latest trailer we’re in for another banger from Bong. Pattinson looks to be playing up the comedic exasperation of being a very replaceable cog in a machine meant to benefit the one percent as represented by Ruffalo and Collette. The duo’s mugging and absurdity in contrast to the others, who they really see as expendable for their gain, teases another pair of delightfully unhinged performances from the arthouse faves.
Mickey 17 hits theaters March 7.
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