The discharge of Bong Joon-ho’s extremely anticipated sci-fi film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson has been pushed to April 2025.
Sadly, we’ll have to attend a little bit longer to see Bong Joon-ho’s extremely anticipated sci-fi film Mickey 17, as Warner Bros. has pushed the discharge date again by three months. Mickey 17 was beforehand slated to hit theaters on January 31, 2025, however the movie has been given a brand new launch date of April 18, 2025, filling the slot beforehand held by Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic.
This shift may even enable the movie to display screen in IMAX. “When the April 18 date turned obtainable, we shortly moved to safe it for Mikey 17. We’re thrilled with the brand new date, and really blissful the movie will likely be obtainable to audiences in Imax,” stated a Warner Bros. spokesperson, “With January 31 now obtainable with a full Imax footprint, we’re additionally very blissful to have Companion releasing on this new date.“
The official synopsis for Mickey 17 reads: “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 final word dedication to the job… to die, for a residing.” Along with Robert Pattinson as the assorted Mickeys, the movie additionally stars Steve Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, and Naomi Ackie. It’s based mostly on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, with Bong Joon-ho writing the script and directing.
Simply final month, the MPA Classification and Score Administration gave Mickey 17 an R-rating for “violent content material, language all through, sexual content material and drug materials.” We caught a little bit of this within the trailer for the movie, as Mickey met his finish in a number of grotesque accidents starting from getting limbs sliced off by area particles and being devoured by area aliens.
I’m fairly excited in regards to the movie, however there have been rumblings that Warner Bros. wasn’t fairly certain what to make of it. Mickey 17 was initially purported to be launched again in March, however it wound up being taken off the schedule completely earlier than making the shift to 2025. Some have claimed that the explanation for the delay is that the studio gained’t let Bong Joon-ho launch his director’s lower, however as a substitute need to launch a “extra accessible” model of the film.