Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho found it a relatively easy choice to cast Robert Pattinson as the titular character in his latest film "Mickey 17."

Following the release of his Oscar-winning hit Parasite, all eyes were on what director Bong Joon Ho would do next. Finally five years later his next project is arriving on our screens and according to our own five star Mickey 17 review,

Open the Youtube video Mickey 17 premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was first shown to the Korean press on February 17th through a press screening. After the premiere, one thing became clear—like all movies,

Combining the best parts of "Snowpiercer" & "Okja" into something new, "Mickey 17" suggests that Bong loves people even more than he hates capitalism.

The actor plays a repeatedly reconstituted “expendable” in this dark comedy set in a nascent ice planet colony, also starring Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Colette and Mark Ruffalo.

So how, exactly, do you make a new human? No, sicko. We don’t mean that. We mean in the context of Bong Joon Ho’s latest, Mickey 17. In the film, Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, a human “expendable” who is brought back to life, over and over, after he dies. How does that work? A new book shows you, in more ways than one.

On a recent visit to The Late Show, award-winning Parasite director Bong Joon Ho shared why, though he respects musicals, he could never make one himself. Watch the conversation here!

Entertainment 'Parasite' director Bong Joon Ho on blending genres in 'Mickey 17' February 26, 2025. South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, whose film "Parasite" made history at the 2

Mickey 17 finally comes out next week, but director Bong Joon-ho is already talking about his big-scale next movie, teasing the release date.