It may have been delayed until next year, but at least now we have our first look Mickey 17. The first trailer for the sci-fi film – powered by A parasite director Bong Joon-ho and stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes – premiered Tuesday evening. According to the trailer’s description, Barnes “finds himself in the unusual position of working for an employer who demands total commitment to work… to die, to live.”
The film is based on a novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, about “a discarded worker on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim.” The book follows the seventh incarnation of the titular Mickey, but appears in the movie to die a few times. Besides Pattinson, it stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, and Thomas Turgoose.
Mickey 17 it will be Joon-ho’s first film since then A parasite in 2019, and is expected to hit theaters on January 31, 2025.