Initially scheduled for March 2024, then postponed to January 31, 2025, the South Korean director’s next film with Robert Pattinson has been postponed again to April 19, 2025.
Bong Joon Ho fans will have to wait a little longer to find out Mickey 17 in theaters. Initially scheduled for March 2024, then postponed to January 31, 2025, the South Korean director’s next film with Robert Pattinson, has been postponed again to April 19, 2025, Warner Bros. announced.
This decision will allow Mickey 17 to have an IMAX screening during the Easter holidays. According to Warner Bros, this choice was also motivated by Lionsgate’s postponement of Antoine Fuqa’s biopic on Michael Jackson, from April 19 to October 3, 2025.
“When the date of April 19 became available, we quickly decided to postpone ‘Mickey 17’. We are delighted with this new date, and above all very happy to know that the film will be available to the public in IMAX,” confided a Warner Bros. spokesperson. to the American media Variety.
Steven Yeun et Mark Ruffalo au casting
Mickey 17 is Bong Joon Ho’s first film since the success of Parasite, became the highest-grossing South Korean film in history, allowing the filmmaker to glean four Oscars in 2020 including Best Director and Best Film.
It is an adaptation of the science fiction novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, published in February 2022, which tells the story of an individual sent to colonize a frozen planet. Each time he dies, his memories are implanted into a new body and his mission resumes.
But after dying six times, he begins to understand the real purpose of his mission and that he should have read all the terms of his contract before embarking on this mission. In addition to Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo have also been announced as cast members.
