What do you do after you’ve got gained the Oscar for Finest Image? In case you’re Bong Joon-ho, you get proper again to work to make one other banger, and select to make it doubtlessly weirder and extra studded with Hollywood stars than something you’ve got made earlier than. The primary full trailer for Bong’s “Parasite” follow-up “Mickey 17” is lastly right here, and his adaptation of Edward Ashton’s trippy sci-fi novel, “Mickey7,” seems to be nice — darkly humorous, unnerving, and, sure, trippy.
The primary sneak peek of the brand new film came to visit a 12 months in the past, in December 2022. At that time, “Mickey 17” was on account of hit theaters by early 2024, nevertheless it was subsequently delayed by what The Hollywood Reporter beforehand referred to “post-strike manufacturing shifts,” which little question gave the film’s crew extra time to make it as sharp and cinematic as attainable in post-production.
“Mickey7” and Bong’s new film each observe the lifetime of an “expendable,” a person designed to be regenerated with a brand new physique and his previous recollections every time he dies. Within the case of Robert Pattinson’s Mickey, he is died 16 occasions whereas making an attempt to colonize a frozen planet, though the footage from the movie screened at CinemaCon earlier this 12 months revealed that the film options two Mickey variations — 17 and 18 — making an attempt to faux to be one man since expendable multiples aren’t allowed to coexist on this world. The movie additionally stars Steven Yeun (inhabiting the identical weirdly humorous area as he did in Bong’s “Okja”), Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, and “Blink Twice” star Naomie Ackie.
Mickey 17 seems to be like bonkers enjoyable
To not sound hyperbolic right here, however this could be top-of-the-line trailers we have seen in a sizzling minute. In no universe may we have now presumably predicted that Robert Pattinson can be placing on that voice as Mickey and his many multiples, however we certain aren’t complaining! His voiceover paired with “Ain’t {That a} Kick within the Head” by Dean Martin and Nelson Riddle is giving “Goodfellas” vibes, but when “Goodfellas” additionally included Steven Yeun with a cool mustache. We all know higher than to doubt Bong Joon-ho’s artistic imaginative and prescient, however we have now to confess … this trailer is exceeding all of our expectations. A science-fiction movie that includes the continued incineration of Robert Pattinson clones (and the specter of being eaten by snow beasts) and a tough-as-nails Toni Collette in an influence go well with? Signal us up!
As pleasant because the trailer is (shout out to Naomi Ackie saying “It is so thrilling!” whereas pinching the cheeks of two Robert Pattinsons), there is not any doubt that Bong Joon-ho goes to discover a solution to sneak in some severe existential drama between area chaos and humorous clone enterprise. The actual disgrace right here is seeing such an unimaginable trailer and realizing we should wait in agony for months till we’ll lastly get to place this in our eyeballs, however “Mickey 17” definitely shot as much as a variety of of us’ most anticipated launch of 2025 checklist.
We look ahead to hooting and hollering when “Mickey 17” hits theaters on January 31, 2025.