“Mickey 17” is looking more like “Mickey 2025.”
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s hotly anticipated follow-up to his Best Picture-winning film “Parasite” was originally set for release in just about a month from now by Warner Bros. Discovery. In January, citing post-production delays and the lingering effect of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the studio removed it from the calendar and slipped “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” in its place. Tuesday, it was announced that the Robert Pattinson-led picture won’t get released this year at all and, instead, will come next (eek!) January.
January is, uh, not when an auteur-led movie with a sterling cast like this is usually released, so the date does raise some eyebrows. (But who knows? Maybe it will have a festival debut, then a one-week release in NYC and LA in December before a full awards and box office push in January? Stranger things have happened!) Variety noted that the new date guarantees placement in IMAX houses, and coincides with Lunar New Year, which is a big movie-going day internationally.
“Mickey 17” (which is not the 16th sequel to the Warren Beatty-starring Arthur Penn-directed jazzy crime thriller “Mickey One”) also stars Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, and Mark Ruffalo. The film is based on the science fiction novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton. (Bong’s first change: add 10!) The story involves space colonization, cloning, and shared memories.
“Mickey 17” represents Bong’s first Hollywood production, though his earlier films “Snowpiercer” and “Okja” were partially in English, and “Okja” was co-produced by Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner’s Plan B Entertainment, which is also a co-producer on “Mickey 17.”
“Parasite” won four Academy Awards after its release in 2019, including Best Picture, the first non-English language film to do so. (“Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall” are both dark horse candidates to repeat this feat this year.) Bong also won for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (shared with Han Jin-won), and the Best International Film awards. “Parasite” also won that year’s Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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