A film adaptation of the hugely popular sci-fi novel Mickey7 has been in the works for years, but now finally a trailer and . For one thing, it is called now Mickey17 and well, fans of the book know exactly what that means. That means they’re expecting an experience crazier than what’s written on the page.
Written and directed by one of the modern masters, Bong Joon Ho, it seems he took some liberties with the source material. Mild spoilers, but the book follows a series of clones of the titular Mickey who do grunt work like colonizing an exoplanet. The book chronicles seven (ish) versions of Mickey, but the movie expands that to at least 17. This will give us more of the darkly hilarious clone deaths that the trailer showed enough of.
A novel is right up Bong Joon Ho’s alley. Clones are basically second-class citizens who exist to die for their corporate bosses. This leaves plenty of room for social satire in the vein of both and . The trailer leans into this thing, and the results look really fun, and believe it or not, it’s actually really funny. We love seeing unique IPs in cinema, don’t we?
Various Mickeys are played by Robert Pattinson, so you need to get some butts in the seats. Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo also star. As soon as I read a book, I know who everyone is playing except Ruffalo. It appears to be an entirely new character, though it may be an amalgamation of several minor players. Adaptations sometimes require dark alchemy.
This could be the first big hit of 2025. It will be released in theaters on January 31. There’s also some franchise potential here, as the book already has a sequel and author Edward Ashton is toying with ideas for a third entry.
