Warner Bros. has settled on a new release date for Bong Joon-ho’s highly-anticipated sci-fi pic "Mickey 17", starring Robert Pattinson.
The movie will now debut on January 31, 2025, after the company undated the movie from its scheduled March 29, 2024, release date and bumped “Godzilla and Kong” franchise, which was previously scheduled to hit theaters on April 12, up two weeks, to take its place.
When the move was announced last month, sources revealed 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 various production shifts.
The 2025 release date also allows “Mickey 17” to open in IMAX, which wouldn’t have been possible any earlier because all those dates were previously committed to other titles. Additionally, the new date coincides with Lunar New Year, which is a major moviegoing event internationally.
“Mickey 17” is adapted from Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel and stars Pattinson as an “expendable” — a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize an ice planet — who refuses to let his replacement clone take his place.
The audience got a first look at what Bong’s adaptation would bring in December 2022, when Warner Bros. debuted a cryptic teaser featuring the actor waking up in a chamber.
Despite plot details having been kept under wraps, it is known that the starry cast also includes Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.
“Mickey 17” is Bong’s first feature since “Parasite”, which became the highest-grossing Korean film in history, as well as the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
In addition to writing and directing, Bong also produces the pic through his company Offscreen. Additional producers include Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B and Dooho Choi of Kate Street Pictures.
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