Once again, the release date of Bong Joon-ho‘s Mickey 17, a science fiction black comedy, has been pushed back. Warner Bros. said that the movie will now come out on April 18, 2025, instead of January 31, 2025, when it was originally scheduled to. Originally scheduled for release on March 29, 2024, this is the most recent in a string of delays for the movie, which has left fans waiting more than a year.
With the new release date, Mickey 17 will be one of the —biggest— movies of Easter-weekend’ 2025. It will replace Lionsgate’s delayed Michael Jackson biopic as one of the biggest movies of the weekend. The movie won’t be coming out in January, which is usually a slower month for new movies, which could mean that Warner Bros. is confident in the project. You can still see it in IMAX for a better experience.
Mickey 17 is based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7. It was directed, produced, and written by Bong Joon-ho, who won an Oscar for his work on Parasite. The story is about a “Expendable” worker named Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), who goes on a human mission to the icy planet Niflheim. He is in charge of all the dangerous and even deadly tasks that come up during colonization. He knows that if he dies, he will come back to life in a new body with most of his memories still intact. But after making it through a mission as Mickey 17, things get complicated when a new version of him shows up: Mickey 18. This causes a clash of identities and a fight for survival.
Pattinson’s role as Mickey Barnes marks his first project after his hit performance as Batman in The Batman (2022). Along with Pattinson, the movie stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.
Mickey 17 looks like it will be a big step forward for Bong Joon-ho’s filmography. It has an interesting mix of sci-fi, dark humor, and identity exploration. Fans will have to wait a little longer, but when the movie comes out in April 2025, it will be one of the biggest hits of the spring movie season.
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