Signing up to be an Expendable means being reprinted each time you die. But what if they just print up a bunch of you? Robert Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, a man selected to pioneer a dangerous ice planet, and find out that there’s something seriously wrong with the mission that they’re not telling him.
A return to speculative sci-fi fantasy for Bong Joon-ho, who went stratospheric with his Oscar-winning psychological satire Parasite. Adapted from the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, this stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable” – a disposable crew member on a space mission, selected for dangerous tasks because he can be renewed if his body dies, with his memories largely intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong.
Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 has had numerous release delays. The sci-fi movie was originally scheduled to be released on March 29, 2024, but the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike and further production delays. The latest delay has allowed Warner Bros. Pictures to prepare a simultaneous release in IMAX, which should benefit the film’s distribution and bottom line.
The budget for Mickey 17 was $150 million, and it spent five years in production, and two more in post-production delay.
Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, Toni Collete as Gwen Johansen, Mark Ruffalo as Hieronymous Marshall and Holiday Granger in an unnamed role in this Bong Joon Ho written and directed feature, with additional writing by Edward Ashton. The film releases March 7, 2025 exclusively in theaters.
