Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey17 trailer is even crazier than the book

The movie adaptation of the immensely widespread sci-fi novel Mickey7 has been within the works for years, however now we lastly have a trailer and . For one factor, it’s now referred to as Mickey17 and, nicely, followers of the guide know precisely what that suggests. It means they’re in for a fair crazier expertise than what’s written on the web page.

The film is written and directed by one of many trendy masters, Bong Joon Ho, who appears to have taken some liberties with the supply materials. Mild spoilers, however the guide follows a sequence of clones of the titular Mickey as they carry out the grunt work of colonizing an exoplanet. The guide chronicles seven (ish) Mickey variants, however the film is amping this as much as a minimum of 17. This can give us loads extra darkly hilarious clone deaths, which the trailer reveals numerous.

The novel is correct up Bong Joon Ho’s alley. Clones are principally second-class residents who exist to die for his or her company overlords. This leaves loads of room for social satire within the vein of each and . The trailer leans into these items and the outcomes look really entertaining and, consider it or not, actually humorous. We like to see distinctive IPs within the cinema, don’t we people?

The varied Mickeys are performed by Robert Pattinson, in order that’ll get some butts within the seats. The solid additionally consists of Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. As a guide reader, I do know who everyone seems to be taking part in apart from Ruffalo. That appears like a brand-new character, although he might be an amalgamation of a few minor gamers. Variations require some darkish alchemy at instances.

This might be the primary huge hit of 2025. It arrives in theaters on January 31. There’s additionally some franchise potential right here, because the guide already has one sequel and creator Edward Ashton has been toying with concepts for a 3rd entry.