Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to Parasite is coming to streaming on Max in just some days.
Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson as a number of variations of a menial employee in a darkish future, is the newest movie from the Academy Award-winning Bong. Pattinson’s Mickey agrees to change into an “expendable” with a purpose to escape a debt on Earth. He’s assigned to a colonial mission to outer area, the place he’s used to perform all essentially the most harmful duties; each time he dies, he’s given a brand new cloned physique and put again to work.
He’s Mickey 17 as a result of he’s now on his seventeenth physique — a minimum of till he seemingly dies in one other work-related accident and the colonists create a Mickey 18. However the first Mickey someway survives, resulting in two Mickeys (which is in opposition to the regulation on this bleak future) working round their area ship.
Along with Pattinson within the two lead roles, the movie additionally stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo as Kenneth Marshall, the previous politician turned quasi cult chief who’s heading the expedition into area to discover a new planet able to sustaining human life.
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Right here is the movie’s 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) has discovered 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.
Mickey 17 premieres on Max (quickly to be HBO Max once more) on Might 23. It premieres on HBO correct on Saturday, Might 24 at 7:40 PM.
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