Parasite and Snowpiercer filmmaker Bong Joon Ho has set a date to return to cinemas, with Warner Bros. announcing that his next project Mickey 17 would be releasing on March 29th, 2024. The studio accompanied the news with a very short, very stylish teaser.

Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo, with Bong penning the script based on the book Mickey7 by Edward Ashton.

Ashton’s novel centres on a man known as an Expendable, on a mission to colonize a distant planet. Each colony features one such Expendable who takes on the most dangerous jobs on the mission – jobs that will assuredly lead to their deaths. However, their memories are backed up and they are restored to cloned bodies when they die. In the novel, Mickey 7 – the 7th version of this crewmember – is left for dead on a mission, but survives. When he returns to base, he discovers that Mickey 8, a clone of himself, has already been created – which is a problem because the idea of duplicate Expendables is universally loathed, and if caught, they would likely be thrown into the recycler for protein. In the case of the film adaptation, we can assume that’s Mickey 17 finding Mickey 18 has taken his place.

Mickey 17 will release March 29th, 2024. Watch the teaser below:

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