Imagine a world where heartless corporate overlords consider their workforce to be so disposable that they will work them to death and then clone them to do it again. That’s the setup for Mickey 17, the latest from Academy Award–winning writer/director Bong Joon-ho (Parasite).
Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey Barnes, who works as an “expendable.” As teased in the first trailer for this dark sci-fi comedy, it’s his job to be killed over and over, like a kind of human crash test dummy. No worries. As he explains in the new trailer, he’ll just be “printed out again.” But life (and death) changes for Mickey 17, when he falls for Nasha (Blink Twice‘s Naomi Ackie) and meets his Multiple (also Robert Pattinson). This throws the corporate leaders (Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo) into execution overdrive, spurring what looks to be a class rebellion.
Fans of Parasite, Okja, and Snowpiercer know well that class conflict is Bong Joon-ho’s sweet spot. We can’t wait to see what the Oscar winner has coming our way now.
