Bong Joon Ho‘s hotly anticipated sci-fi movie “Mickey 17,” starring Robert Pattinson, could have its worldwide premiere on the Berlin Movie Competition, Selection has realized.
The $118 million film marks Bong’s first directorial effort since “Parasite,” which received Cannes’ Palme d’Or and made Oscar historical past, changing into the first foreign-language movie to win the Academy Award for finest image.
“Mickey 17” will debut in South Korean theaters on Feb. 28, and can be globally launched per week later by Warner Bros. There is also a premiere of the film in South Korea slated for earlier than the Berlinale unspooling.
Securing the film’s worldwide premiere is a serious coup for the Berlinale’s new inventive director Tricia Tuttle — a progressive American movie journalist and curator — who will rejoice her first version on the pageant this yr, succeeding Carlo Chatrian. Tuttle beforehand led the BFI London Movie Competition throughout a fast-growing five-year chapter.
Based mostly on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi thriller stars Pattinson as an “expendable” worker named Mickey Barnes. Within the novel, Mickey is distributed on harmful missions to colonize an ice planet. When one model of Mickey dies, a replica is created to exchange him that retains most of his reminiscences. The star-studded solid additionally contains Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.
Together with writing and directing the film, Bong additionally produced it by his firm Offscreen. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B and Dooho Choi of Kate Avenue Photos are co-producers on the movie.
Warner Bros. was initially planning to launch “Mickey 17” in March 2024 and later moved it to January 2025, earlier than shifting it once more to the top of February. The choice to delay the discharge was reportedly made to safe an Imax launch window and permit extra time to complete the undertaking, the completion of which was delayed because of the Hollywood strikes and varied manufacturing shifts.
As beforehand introduced, the seventy fifth version of the Berlin Movie Competition will kick off with Tom Tykwer’s “The Mild,” which can be offered as a Berlinale Particular Gala out of competitors. The movie marks Tykwer’s return to the large display screen after seven years and 4 seasons as the author and director of the hit collection “Babylon Berlin.”
Underneath Tuttle’s new management, the pageant will this yr be “revitalizing” its Potsdamer Platz location with two new additions, the Stage Bluemax Theater and the Berlinale Hub75.
The complete Berlinale lineup can be unveiled on Jan. 21. The Berlin Movie Competition will run from Feb. 13 to 23
