Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson talk about what drew them to “Mickey 17,” in cinemas March 5

Robert Pattinson as Mickey 18 and Mickey 17 in Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17.”

Director Bong Joon Ho, who won Academy Awards in 2020 for writing and directing “Parasite,” is back in the director’s chair with the hotly anticipated “Mickey 17,” starring Robert Pattinson. 

Just from the summary of the original novel, “Mickey 7” by Edward Ashton, Bong says he was “instantly captivated” and got more engrossed in the story as he read page by page. “I thought that it had such a unique concept, which is human printing, and that’s very different from human cloning,” says the filmmaker. “It’s like you’re printing out humans as if human beings are just pieces of paper, documents to be printed out. And I thought that human printing – even in the expression itself – we could sense the tragedy of that condition and that profession. And so, I started thinking about what it would be like to actually be that person being printed out. All these thoughts came to me and I was completely in that world instantly.”

Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” starring Robert Pattinson, opens in cinemas March 5. Watch the new trailer and check out the official poster!

All jobs are hard, his is to die for. #Mickey17 – only in cinemas March 5.

He’s dying to save mankind. From the Academy Award-winning director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes “Mickey 17,” starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie and Steven Yeun, with Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. Only in cinemas March 5. 

Watch the new trailer: https://youtu.be/A1frxqUGvFc?si=WAdUy3-89d2fwNH9

Official synopsis: 

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.” Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Robert Pattinson plays multiple Mickeys in “Mickey 17,” from Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho, in cinemas January 29, 2025

What’s it feel like to die? From the Academy Award-winning director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes “Mickey 17,” starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie and Steven Yeun, with Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. Only in cinemas January 29, 2025.

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/3f27ownDFhA 

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.” Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.