Sci-fi meets dark comedy in first trailer for Robert Pattinson’s new movie from Parasite director
Sep. 18, 2024Bong Joon-ho is back with Mickey 17
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The first trailer for Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s new movie Mickey 17 is here – and we can expect sci-fi, dark comedy, and multiple Robert Pattinsons.
Pattinson plays Mickey, an “expendable.” Per the movie’s synopsis, he’s “a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact.”
Right off the bat, the trailer opens with Mickey’s hand getting cut off in space. “If you were thinking at this point, ‘What have I done?'” he explains in a voiceover, “nothing was working out and I wanted to get off Earth.” Sent on “one mission after another,” Mickey’s deaths are in aid of scientific research.
“It’s not looking very good for you,” Steven Yeun’s character calls out at one point, as Mickey plummets through some ice into some sort of alien’s den. “Yeah, I know,” he says, unbothered. Mickey’s repetitious life cycle hits a hefty bump in the road, however, when he comes face-to-face with himself – he’s now a ‘Multiple.’
“In the case of Multiples, we exterminate every individual!” cries Mark Ruffalo’s character, who looks to be back on top, flamboyant Poor Things form, before Mickey finds he has to fight for his life in a very different way.
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