Warner Bros. Photos confirmed as we speak that Snowpiercer and The Host writer-director Bong Joon-ho is at the moment capturing his follow-up to his Greatest Image-winning 2019 class satire Parasite. The movie, a science fiction story known as Mickey 17, will star Robert Pattinson within the title position. No abstract of the film’s plot was instantly obtainable, however Warner Bros. reviews that Bong wrote the script as an adaptation of the 2022 e book Mickey 7, by Edward Ashton. Marvel Cinematic Universe star Mark Ruffalo will co-star, alongside Nope’s Steven Yeun, Hereditary star Toni Collette, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s Naomi Ackie.
Mickey 7 facilities on a cloned employee, known as an “Expendable,” who turns into conscious via a number of iterations of his life that he’s being despatched on a collection of extremely harmful missions as a result of he’s simply replaceable. After certainly one of these missions, he returns to find that his alternative, Mickey 8, has already reported for responsibility. It’s a state of affairs which will instantly carry earlier films to thoughts for sci-fi followers — Duncan Jones’ Moon and Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion each function “disposable” area staff studying disagreeable truths about their mission and their state of affairs.
Bong is more likely to have his personal robust spin on this materials, given his behavior of placing his personal life and work into films like Parasite. (Look, he’s already added 10 whole-ass Mickeys to the equation.) Ashton’s state of affairs appears notably properly suited to a writer-director who’s persistently made films about class and earnings inequity, society’s decrease courses and outcasts, and the battle to seek out justice and recognition in an imbalanced society. The concept of a employee created to serve extra privileged individuals, and die for them within the course of, appears proper up his alley. We’ll have to attend greater than a yr to see what his model of the story seems to be like, although. Mickey 17 is slated for worldwide launch on March 29, 2024.