Words Cannot Describe The First Bonkers Look From Director Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite Follow-Up

“Mickey 17,” like “Mickey 7,” follows an employee named Mickey (Pattinson) on a human expedition to colonize an ice planet called Niflheim. The colonizers are considered expendable, and whenever one dies a human print copy is sent to replace them, with most of their previous iterations’ memories intact. The 7 in “Mickey 7” comes from the numbers added to each version of a person, and “Mickey 17” had to have the title changed because, Bong jokes, they killed Mickey 10 more times. As far as casting goes, Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”) plays the “bad guy,” a strange dictator who rules this bizarre future world, and Toni Collette (“Hereditary”) plays his wife. Naomi Ackie (“Doctor Who”) plays Mickey’s girlfriend.

Warner Bros. shared footage from the film which included a shot of a huge ship hovering over a planet (likely Niflheim) as Pattinson does a voice-over in a rather strange voice. He explains that he’s an “expendable,” a choice that baffles the people in his life who aren’t themselves also expendables. He has experiments done on him and gets maimed and killed, though it seems kind of irreverent and darkly funny. Mickey seems fine with his whole arrangement until there’s a situation with multiples, as in two Mickeys (Mickey 17 and 18). According to Scott, the footage was “huge, ridiculous, and shocking. It’s big budget with a personality.” He also said, “Holy s*** that looks insane. Words do it no justice,” and when you see as many movies as we do, those are not easy words to come by.