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‘Mickey 17’ Production Designer Explains How the Human Printer Works: ‘It Can Look a Bit Like an MRI’
The 'Mickey 17' Production Designer spoke with Variety to break down her approach to the Human Printer.
In the near-future space travels of the Bong Joon Ho film, “Mickey 17,” Robert Pattinson plays an Expendable – a person designated to be used for often-fatal scientific experiments and revived through a human printer that makes an exact copy of their body, memories intact, each time. Crombie spoke with Variety to break down her approach to the printer as well as clues in the machine’s design that indicate how exactly it’s creating Pattinson’s character, Mickey, each time. What the inside of the human printer looks like remains a mystery for most of the film until a nightmare sequence at the very end when Ylfa (Toni Collette) is watching Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) being printed.
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