Bong Joon Ho, the director behind Parasite and the upcoming Mickey 17, isn’t precisely itching to leap into the world of franchise filmmaking… until, in fact, it entails a Xenomorph belting out present tunes.
Bong was just lately requested about leaping into franchise challenge and he instructed the Los Angeles Occasions: “I am not drawn to franchise movies, however I did assume at one level that I wish to do an Alien movie,” earlier than including… “An Alien musical.”
I think about he’s half-joking there. However the thought of Bong Joon Ho directing a sci-fi horror musical set within the Alien universe is bizarrely attention-grabbing. Whereas one thing like it will by no means occur, your creativeness can no run wild with what an Alien musical would appear to be.
For now, although, Bong is concentrated on Mickey 17, his adaptation of Edward Ashton’s novel. The movie stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable,” a employee whose consciousness is uploaded into a brand new physique each time he dies—till two variations of him exist on the identical time.
The guide Mickey 7 has a sequel, however don’t anticipate Bong to dive into franchise territory there, both. “After I was having a Zoom discuss with Ed [Ashton], and he was telling me about it, and , he is such an ideal, fascinating author, I might like to tackle the problem however to be trustworthy, I’ve a plethora of latest, bizarre concepts that I wish to deal with, so I wish to transfer on to these reasonably than a sequel,” he defined.
So whereas the concept of a Bong Joon Ho-directed Alien musical will ceaselessly dwell in our imaginations, no less than we all know he has loads of different bizarre, authentic concepts nonetheless coming our method.
Now, I’ll depart you with this:
