The first full length trailer of “Mickey 17” movie is out now. Bong Joon-ho the director’s follow-up film after parasite is Mickey 17, the trailer looks kinda weird to everyone who has watched the Mickey 17 trailer. Movie lovers from everywhere are still wondering what’s going on in this upcoming science fiction movie starring Robert Pattinson, and now we have got the answers for you. This film is an adaptation of the Edward Ashton Novel Mickey 7 directed by Bong Joon-ho. This film is backed up by some supporting casts that includes Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun and Toni Collette which is set to release in January 2025. So what’s exactly going on in Mickey 17?
“Mickey 17” is Based On A Novel Name Mickey 7 By Edward Ashton In 2022
Edward Ashton’s Novel Mickey 7 is an epic science fiction novel which follows a story of a space traveler named Mickey Barnes (Played by Robert Pattinson). The character Mickey Barnes is assisting on a mission to establish a colony on an Ice planet Niflheim.This novel’s story is set in the future, where humankind has expanded beyond earth and established colonies across the universe. In this story Mickey is considered as an “Expendable” which means he faces the dilemma of immortality. So when Mickey dies, he is reprinted with the majority of his memories intact so that he can continue his mission.
The most dangerous missions are assigned to the Expendables because they can be re-created. But still being an Expendables requires a lot of courage, but they are only recognized as an Utilitarian and disposable role.
The novel starts with the seventh iteration of Mickey where he falls into a crevasse while he was out on a mission with his friend Berto (Steven Yuen) and his girlfriend Nasha (Naomi Ackie). After the incident, his friend and girlfriend report to the commander, Hieronymous Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) about Mickey’s situation that he is dead and then Mickey 8 is created. However Mickey 7 somehow survives and returns to his base. And then he finds out that he is not the only version of himself around.
But it is considered as catastrophic for two Expendables to coexist, if both versions of Mickey get discovered they have to face death by “protein recycling”. So, Mickey 7 must hide his duplicate version from his friends and authorities, while the colony’s potential of survival is at threat because of the planet’s condition getting worse.
Edward Ashton’s Novel “Mickey7” Deals With Existential Questions of Identity
The movie Mickey 17 is an existential novel that asks how a person can find meaning in life where life never ends. With this Novel Edward Ashton wanted to ask “What it means to die again and again, and come back but not really be sure that you’re really the same person you were before,” in an Interview with Nerdist. The situation in this novel is inherently interesting for character study, and is well-suited for cinema.
In Bong Joon-ho’s adaptation, Robert Pattinson is challenged to portray a character who already died 16 times, as well as a human copy of himself. There is also a question about this film about how Mickey and his friends have perceived each version of him and also if they are able to identify any differences between the versions.
Mickey7 is written with a great deal of humor even with its existential themes, told by Mickey’s dry, morbid narration. The very first line of this novel starts with Mickey lying in the crevasse saying “this is going to be his stupidest death ever.” In the novel, Mickey’s tone is already darkly funny because he has already died six times,so that’s why Mickey is likely pretty about death at this point. As the scene continued, Mickey reveals that the reason he fell into the crevasse is very silly – Mickey was looking at a rock which looks like a monkey.
In addition to the humor in this novel, this opener already establishes the world-building element of the novel. This bleak, futuristic landscape of ice in this movie may feel akin to Bong Joon-ho’s post apocalyptic movie “Snowpiercer” but the character of this movie is definitely not taking life as seriously.
Why Bong Joon-ho is a great fit to Direct Mickey 17?
A good adaptation of the novel “Mickey7” requires a director who can describe the line between shades of darkness and humor within it. As the requirement Bong Joon-ho seems the perfect fit for this job. Even in his earlier thriller films like “Memories of Murders” Bong infuses a comically absurd humor into his characters to balance out the dark themes.
And now we can already tell that Bong and the supremely talented actors in this cast can capture the dark humor of this novel. Within the trailer we can see Berto is asking Mickey “what’s it feel like to die“ right before an alien monster attacks him and at that time Dean Martin’s “Ain’t That A Kick in the Head?” is playing over explosions.
And now we’re just waiting to see how Bong will interpret the source of material to be seen in the movie by Pattinson. But we do know that Robert Pattinson has already worked on a science fiction cinema before in 2018s High Life. In addition to that Edward Ashton has given his stamps of approval to Bong for his adaptation of this novel. Edward Ashton said in the same interview with Nerdist that Bong has made it clear that he will be changing a lot of details in the adaptation but “In my view the man is a genius. I don’t believe he’s ever made a bad film”
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