Warner Bros. has set a new release date for “Mickey 17,” moving the highly anticipated collaboration between Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson to 2025.
The sci-fi film will now premiere on January 31, 2025, after Warner Bros. The film was pushed back from its scheduled release date of March 29, 2024, and moved up “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” by two weeks to replace it.
The sources said that when this move was announced last month diverse The decision was made to allow more time to finish the project, which was affected by last year’s strikes and other various production shifts. The new January 2025 release date also allows “Mickey 17” to be shown in IMAX, something that wasn’t possible earlier because all those dates were previously reserved for other titles. January also tends to be a dead zone at the box office, without many new releases and several hit films (like last year’s “Wonka,” 2019’s “Aquaman,” or 2015’s “American Sniper”) carrying over from debuts. Strong for the first time in late December. Therefore, a long-awaited film like “Mickey 17” may benefit from pent-up demand. Additionally, the new date coincides with the Lunar New Year, a major international movie-going event.
“Mickey 17” is Bong’s first feature film since “Parasite,” which became the highest-grossing Korean film in history, as well as the first non-English language film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. In addition to writing and directing, Bong is also producing the upcoming film through his company Offscreen. Additional producers include Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B and Dooho Choi of Kate Street Pictures.
The film is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, described by publisher St. Martin Press described it as a high-concept, cerebral thriller in the vein of “The Martian” and “Dark Matter.” Pattinson plays an “expendable”—a disposable employee of a human expedition sent to colonize an icy planet—who refuses to let his replacement clone take his place. Further details about the story are being kept under wraps, but the star-studded cast also includes Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.