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Death, Reprint, Repeat: Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson on Starting Fresh with Mickey 17

Mickey 17 star and director Bong Joon Ho raise the curtain on a sci-fi thriller about death, rebirth, and doing it again and again.

Photo by Jonathan Olley, courtesy of Warner Bros.Parasite arrived in 2019, a year when the film industry was thriving, and suggested limitless possibilities for Bong and cinema in general: A thriller with elements of comedy, sci-fi, and horror, it also offered a provocative, complex commentary on class. Though Bong urged audiences in one of his Parasite acceptance speeches to “ overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles,” he has made Mickey 17 more accessible to American moviegoers by making it in English, and has cast one of the world’s biggest movie stars in the lead role. Ashton, meanwhile, was a longtime fan who calls Snowpierecer “brilliant” and Okja “an underrated masterpiece.” The author, whose books include The Fourth Consort, Mal Goes to War and Antimatter Blues, was delighted when Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, acquired Mickey7 and gave it to Bong before it was published in 2022.

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