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Bong Joon Ho’s Robert Pattinson Sci-Fi

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Yesterday, the official X/Twitter account for director Bong Joon Ho‘s upcoming sci-fi film Mickey 17 uploaded an abbreviated clip featuring a chilly Robert Pattinson teasing the long-awaited arrival of the film’s trailer. “What’s it like to die?”, Pattinson’s character is asked as he perishes repeatedly. The trailer is here and our excitement couldn’t be higher for this one.

Mickey 17, based on the Edward Ashton book Mickey 7, follows a man named Mickey Barnes who, after being scanned by a machine, is tasked with assisting in colonizing an ice planet. The mysterious machine’s purpose is to reprint his body repeatedly until his task is complete. Should Mickey meet his untimely end by drowning, freezing to death, or zombie buffalo, no biggie. There’s more Mickey to go around so long as only one of him exists at a time—a paradox that becomes a problem when a reprint survives his scheduled termination. What follows are multiple versions of Mickey fighting (or playing rock paper scissors) to decide who will continue living while contending with the ice planet’s lethal environment and hostile lifeforms. In short, Mickey 17 is grade-A speculative fiction with a baker’s dozen more Pattinsons to add to the ensuing drama.

In addition to Pattinson(s), the film stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. On the production end of things, Mickey 17 will also see Oscar-nominated director of photography Darius Khondji (Okja) on board, alongside Oscar-nominated production designer Fiona Crombie (Cruella), Oscar-nominated editor Jinmo Yang (Parasite), costume designer Catherine George (Snowpiercer), visual effects supervisor Dan Glass (The Matrix), and Jae-il Jung (Parasite) providing the film’s score.

Mickey 17 was initially slated to release March 29, 2024, but was pushed back. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. delayed it due to production shifts during the SAG-AFTRA strike—though its new release window was probably for the best, considering it would have had to contend with Elio, Kung Fu Panda 4, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Godzilla and Kong.

Mickey 17 releases in theaters January 31, 2025.

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Let’s Never Ever Remake Possession

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Possession poster art by Barbara Baranowska

A crop of Barbara Baranowska’s iconic Possession (1981) poster art.
Image: Gaumont

Yes, io9 used a very similar headline back in 2017 regarding a remake of The Crow—and Hollywood clearly did not listen; that long-in-the-works project is arriving in theaters this August. How The Crow do-over fares is yet to be seen (maybe Bill Skarsgård’s Joker look will work magic?), but we must insist, yet again, that another much-loved genre classic be left the hell alone, no matter how much we enjoy the involved talent.

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Andrzej Zulawski’s singularly unsettling 1981 film Possession is chugging down the remake track with writer-director Parker Finn (Smile) and producer Robert Pattinson—an obvious choice to also star, though THR notes “his acting involvement will be clarified down the road as the script and schedules develop.” The original film stars Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani as a couple living in West Berlin whose marriage fractures amid surreal, supernatural circumstances. It’s haunting, and has since become a cult classic.

The trade also reports that multiple studios are currently battling over who will, uh, get possession of Possession, including “A24, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros,” and that “other companies may enter the fray.” Also of note: “the reception to the pitches has been extremely positive, with execs talking about the ‘batshit’ and ‘out there’ story but also its strong commercial potential. How to market the eventual movie is also part of the conversations.”

What do you think about remaking Possession—and for that matter, are you counting down to The Crow?

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