After two years of post-production and a number of launch date shifts, Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” has lastly introduced a premiere.
Bong’s “Parasite” comply with up will play on the seventy fifth Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition in February earlier than opening in theaters all over the world on March 7, IndieWire has confirmed. The information was first reported by Selection. The movie opens in South Korea on February 28.
Tailored from Edward Ashton’s 2022 sci-fi novel “Mickey7,” “Mickey 17” stars Robert Pattinson as an Expendable who is shipped on missions which can be deemed too harmful for people to danger. Within the movie, he’s despatched to colonize a brand new world generally known as Niflheim and dies dozens of occasions within the course of. Pattinson performs a number of doomed iterations of Mickey within the movie, and his “Ren & Stimpy”-inspired voices have been a frequent matter of dialog after the trailer dropped in September.
Along with Pattinson, the movie stars Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Naomi Ackie.
The prospect of Bong following his historic “Parasite” Oscar win with an English-language venture starring Pattinson has made “Mickey 17” one of the talked-about tasks in Hollywood. However regardless of the preliminary pleasure, the movie has modified launch dates a number of occasions. The movie underwent a prolonged post-production course of after wrapping its shoot in December 2022, and was initially scheduled for a March 2024 launch. Warner Bros. then pushed the movie to January 31, 2025, then moved it to April 18, earlier than shifting it again once more to March 7.
Many speculated that the delays have been a results of inventive disagreements between Bong and Warner Bros., although the auteur confirmed in a latest interview with Empire that he had closing minimize on the model being launched.
“With ‘Okja’ and now ‘Mickey 17,’ I used to be given the ultimate minimize as a part of my deal. The studio revered my closing minimize rights,” Bong mentioned. “After all, throughout the enhancing course of there are a lot of opinions and lots of discussions that occur. However this movie is my minimize, and I’m very glad about it. It was an extended course of, however it was all the time easy and respectful.”
IndieWire has reached out to the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition for remark.
Extra reporting by Brian Welk.