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Warner Bros. has found a new release date for “Mickey 17,” moving the long-awaited Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson collaboration to 2025.
The sci-fi film will now debut on January 31, 2025, after Warner Bros. removed the film’s release date from its planned March 29, 2024 release date and moved up “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” two weeks to take its place. When the move was announced last month, sources said Variety that the decision was made to allow more time to finish the project, which had been affected due to last year’s strikes and other production changes.
The new January 2025 release date also allows “Mickey 17” to premiere in IMAX, which wouldn’t have been possible before because all of those dates were previously committed to other titles. January also tends to be a dead zone at the box office, with not many new releases and many of the biggest hits (like last year’s “Wonka,” 2019’s “Aquaman” or 2015’s “American Sniper”) moving on from strong debuts. from the end of December. Therefore, a highly anticipated movie like “Mickey 17” could benefit from pent-up demand. In addition, the new date coincides with the Lunar New Year, which is a major international film event.
“Mickey 17” is Bong’s first feature film since “Parasite,” which became the highest-grossing Korean film in history, as well as the first non-English-language film to win best picture at the Oscars. In addition to writing and directing, Bong is also producing the upcoming film through his company Offscreen. Additional producers include Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B and Dooho Choi of Kate Street Pictures.
The film is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, described by publisher St. Martin Press as a high-concept cerebral thriller in the vein of “The Martian” and “Dark Matter.” Pattinson plays an “expendable” (a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize an ice planet) who refuses to allow his replacement clone to take his place. More plot details have been kept under wraps, but its star-studded cast also includes Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.