The moment Bong Joon-ho’sParasite gained the Oscar for Greatest Image, everybody questioned “What’s subsequent?” The reply, it seems, is a sci-fi adaptation about clones and dying that’s popping out in 2025. We’ve seen the primary trailer and it’s completely psychological.
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The film is named Mickey 17 and it stars the Batman himself, Robert Pattinson. Pattinson performs a person who realizes his job is to die and be cloned, again and again, till in the future a clone turns into self-aware. It’s based mostly on a ebook referred to as Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, however Joon-ho determined he wished to kill the character 10 extra instances, in order that’s why his model is Mickey 17. That’s what the Oscar-winning director stated at CinemaCon 2024 this week as he revealed, for the primary time ever, the trailer for his 2025 sci-fi movie. And although the trailer gained’t be out for some time, io9 was there, and we have now to inform you about it. As a result of it’s freaking insane.
The entire trailer is ready to “Ain’t {That a} Kick within the Head’ by Dean Martin so, go and play that whilst you learn what’s taking place. We begin with a spaceship floating over a planet. A person is in an area swimsuit outdoors the ship, and somebody asks if his vertigo is kicking in. He admits he feels slightly dizzy when one thing slices off his hand and it floats out into house.
That is Mickey, Pattinson’s character, who has a type of squeaky, meek voice, nearly like a gangster in a Disney film. He’s obtained a brand new job as an expendable, which implies that they do a full scan on his physique in order that, when he dies, they will simply print a brand new one. Mickey admits he didn’t learn the total software so he wasn’t positive what that meant.
So, as an expendable, he’s gotta do all types of various missions. We see him working with fireplace, on an ice planet, and extra, and it retains slicing again to him dying and other people shoving a physique bag into an incinerator. At one level, the folks shoving the physique in there understand the individual within the physique bag remains to be alive. “It’s tremendous,” says Mickey, they usually shove him down into the flames.
At one level we see a model of him fall by way of the ice and land completely out of attain. “It’s not trying good for you,” somebody says, as an enormous creature runs and kills one other model of him. In the meantime, a pal asks him “What does it really feel wish to die?” Mickey tells him though he’s used to it after 17 instances, he nonetheless doesn’t prefer it. Which is when Mickey goes to his room and lays down subsequent to… one other Mickey.
“Why aren’t you useless?” asks the opposite Mickey, Mickey 18, who has a way more regular, assured voice. We don’t know, however we discover out that when “a number of” exist on this world, they have to be exterminated. So we see scenes of different clones being murdered together with a second the place somebody suggests they play Rock Paper Scissor to determine which of their clones lives.
A bunch of motion scenes fly by with the 2 Mickeys, till one Mickey says to the opposite Mickey “I don’t such as you.” To which the opposite responds “However I’m you.” “I’m not you!” he retorts they usually proceed to struggle. Then we see the pair again on the ice planet with a complete discipline filled with these creatures from earlier than that appear like zombie buffalo. “Not this once more.” one says.
So, yeah, Mickey 17 seems to be fairly damned wild. A film about coping with dying, but additionally about determining reside. A film with a tough, sci-fi premise, however that additionally has a number of humor and pathos to it. And a number of Roberts Pattinson.
