Director of the Oscar-winning film ‘Parasite’, Bong Jong Ho’s film ‘Mickey 17’ starring Batman actor, Robert Pattinson, has been moved back for an Easter premiere in 2025.
The move came after Lionsgate’s shift of its Michael Jackson’s biopic ‘Michael’ premiere from April 18 to October 3, 2025.
Warner Bros seized the opportunity to move back ‘Mickey 17’ release date from January 31 to April 18, thereby maintaining its usual tradition of global premiere screenings within the Easter holiday. Meantime, its latest film ‘Companion’ scheduled to screen in cinemas on January 31.
‘Mickey 17’, an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 Sci-Fi novel ‘Mickey 7’ that tells the story of an expendable employee, Mickey Barnes, sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world of Niflheim.
Barnes’s dangerous missions often leave him dead. However, with each death, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact, effectively rendering him immortal.
“The number (17) is the number of times he dies. I kill him 10 times more. It’s a story of simple man. It’s a sci-fi movie. It’s hard to say sci-fi, it’s a human story,” said Jong-ho.
The South Korean film director shot to global limelight with his 2019 film ‘Parasite’, which won Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and four Oscars in 2020 including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film. Parasite as grossed $53.3m in the US, the first foreign languages movies to do so, and over $262m worldwide.
