Is Warner Bros. advertising and marketing a very totally different film than what South Korean and Award-winning “Parasite” filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho “Memories of Murder”) supposed together with his upcoming sci-fi movie “Mickey 17,” or is it only a case of tailoring to radically totally different audiences and territories?
The U.S. trailer for “Mickey 17,” which stars Robert Pattinson (“The Batman,” “Tenet”), Naomi Ackie (“Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker”), Steven Yeun (“Nope”), with Academy Award nominees Toni Collette (“Hereditary”), and Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”), was sure, irreverent and elevated with notes of flippant comedy.
Nonetheless, a newly launched Korean trailer for the movie, written and directed by Joon Ho, exhibits off fairly a bit of latest footage and maybe an excellent goofier, extra comical tone.
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One wonders if tone is a part of a few of the points “Mickey 17” has confronted. Initially anticipated in March 2024—reportedly on account of VFX points—the movie was ultimately rescheduled for a January 2025 opening—which isn’t nice contemplating there’s an Oscar-winner behind the movie and January is historically generally known as a dumping floor for films studios don’t really feel assured about. Who is aware of, but it surely nonetheless appears like maybe the studio doesn’t know what to make of the film.
“Mickey 17” is produced by Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (Oscar winners for “Moonlight” and “12 Years a Slave”), Bong Joon Ho, and Dooho Choi (“Okja,” “Snowpiercer”). It’s primarily based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton. The manager producers are Brad Pitt, Jesse Ehrman, Peter Dodd, and Marianne Jenkins. The director of images is Darius Khondji (Oscar nomination for “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” “Okja”).
Right here’s the official synopsis:
From the Academy Award-winning author/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his subsequent groundbreaking cinematic expertise, “Mickey 17.” The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), finds himself within the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who calls for the last word dedication to the job… to die for a dwelling.
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Warner Bros. Photos will distribute the movie worldwide, in theaters solely nationwide on January 31, 2025, and internationally starting on January 28, 2025. Watch this new South Korean trailer under.
