Sure, Robert Pattinson may be getting killed again and again in “Mickey 17,” but the real resurrection story comes from the film‘s musical chairs of release dates.
After being delayed due to strikes, post-production, and just plain old calendar reshuffling, “Mickey 17” will finally open on March 7; on Wednesday, January 22, we got a new trailer.
Bong Joon Ho’s “next groundbreaking cinematic experience” (as promised by Warner Bros. Discovery) centers on Pattinson’s titular character Mickey Barnes, who finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job…to die, for a living.
Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Naomi Ackie also star.
“Parasite” writer/director Bong penned the script based on the novel “Mickey 7” by Edward Ashton. Bong also produces along with Dooho Choi. “Mickey 17” will screen at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival and opens in South Korea on February 28 before debuting in the U.S.
“Mickey 17” is produced by Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, with Brad Pitt, Jesse Ehrman, Peter Dodd, and Marianne Jenkins executive producing.
Bong reunites with his “Okja” director of photography Darius Khondji, “Snowpiercer” costume designer Catherine George, and “Parasite” editor Yang Jinmo. The music is by Jung Jaeil (“Parasite,” “Squid Game”), with Dan Glass (“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw”) as the visual effects supervisor. The production designer is Fiona Crombie (“The Favourite,” “Cruella”).
“Mickey 17” is a Warner Bros. Pictures feature and a Plan B Entertainment, Offscreen, and A Kate Street Picture Company production.
Pattinson recently told Vanity Fair that “Mickey 17” is being released “in a period of enthusiasm for cinema” after the lull of “ambitious” films amid COVID and the strikes.
“It’s strange because the last few years for the film industry, starting with COVID and then the strikes, everyone was constantly saying cinema is dying. And quite convincingly. I was literally almost turned off,” Pattinson said of acting. “It actually started to get a little worrying. Then looking in the last few months, there’s this flurry of very ambitious movies. I feel like the stuff that’s going to get nominated for Oscars this year is going to be really interesting, and it seems like there’s suddenly a new batch of directors who the audience is excited about as well. […] Hopefully ‘Mickey’ will come out in a period of enthusiasm for cinema.”
“Mickey 17” premieres March 7 in theaters. Check out the trailer below.
