Sorry Robert Pattinson followers, however you may have to attend a little bit longer to see the actor play 17 characters within the Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho’s new sci-fi thriller, Mickey 17, and it is all due to a controversial upcoming biopic. Based mostly on an authentic screenplay by Bong Joon-ho, Pattinson stars because the titular Mickey, who indicators as much as be a disposable worker on an interstellar expedition. Every time he dies, Mickey is re-cloned on the area station, however issues start to spiral when too many clones are created.
Mickey 17 was purported to be hitting theaters on January 31. Nevertheless, the movie has been pushed again by over two months, to an April 18 launch date. Motion pictures are sometimes delayed for varied causes. However, the April launch window was truly the unique plan for Mickey 17, though it confronted powerful competitors from Michael, the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic. Lionsgate has pushed again Michael even additional to October, hoping to select up Oscar buzz for the 2026 awards. Consequently, April was free for Mickey 17 to fly proper in. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. stated in a press release:
“When the April 18 date turned out there, we rapidly moved to safe it for ‘Mickey 17. We’re thrilled with the brand new date, and really glad the movie can be out there to audiences in IMAX.”
Michael has been the goal of criticism from some audiences because of Michael Jackson’s varied sexual abuse allegations, the primary of which got here out method again in 1993. Following the discharge of Leaving Neverland, a two-part HBO documentary specializing in his accusers, Jackson has turn into a posthumously controversial determine. Whereas some are hoping Michael will paint an unbiased image of the singer and his private life, others imagine and assume that, in a biopic starring his personal nephew, Jaafar Jackson, the darker aspect of the King of Pop’s life can be left on the chopping room flooring.
Robert Pattinson Dies A number of Instances in Mickey 17
The evolution of Robert Pattinson’s profession needs to be studied by anthropologists. Anybody who’s conscious of the English actor is aware of him from his starring function within the Twilight franchise because the lead vampire, Edward Cullen. He additionally performed a supporting however impactful function in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireplace. However, following his departure from Twilight, Robert Pattinson’s filmography has been the proper antidote to his typecasting.
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Bong Joon-ho has lastly clarified why it took Mickey 17 virtually an additional 12 months to hit theaters.
Pattinson starred in a number of films following Twilight, however really obtained impartial recognition for his main function within the Safdie brothers’ Good Time — a task he earned by chilly emailing them after solely seeing a nonetheless from their earlier film. Since then, Pattinson has starred within the underrated sci-fi drama Excessive Life, appeared alongside Willem Dafoe in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, guided John David Washington by way of Tenet, lent his voice to Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron, and, oh yeah… did we point out he is Batman!
Alongside Robert Pattinson, Mickey 17 encompasses a star-studded supporting solid which incorporates Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Ackie, and Angus Imrie. Bong Joon-ho’s devoted fan base are desirous to see the director return to the massive display screen after his sensational work on Parasite, which bagged 4 Oscars in 2020, together with Greatest Movement Image of the 12 months (the primary international language movie to win the award).
