Berlin 2025: First Reactions to Bong Joon-ho’s MICKEY 17
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The 2025 Berlin International Film Festival got underway on Thursday, and one of the highest profile premieres is Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his Oscar winning Parasite, the sci-fi comedy MICKEY 17.
Mickey 17 is produced, written, and directed by Bong Joon-ho, and is based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The film stars Robert Pattinson in the title role, alongside Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.
In the film, wanting to get off of Earth, the financially destitute Mickey Barnes signs up to be an "expendable", a disposable clone worker, on the human colony Niflheim. As an expendable, Mickey undertakes several dangerous assignments he is not expected to survive, with a new body being regenerated each time he dies.
After one of his clones, "Mickey 17", is incorrectly assumed dead, both the previous and current version, known as Mickey 18, have to grapple with the nature of being expendables and the brutal government of the colony.
This film will launch via Warner Bros in US theaters on March 7th, 2025. Here are the first reactions and reviews:
Check out a new clip from the film and the official US trailer here:
