Robert Pattinson is reportedly teaming up with Bong Joon Ho for the Parasite director's next film, which Deadline reports will be based on an upcoming sci-fi novel titled Mickey7, with Bong set to write, direct, and produce the new adaptation.
Pattinson appears set to play Mickey7, an expendable colonist who is sent on suicidal missions that no one else will take. If Mickey7 dies, then a clone is generated with most of his memories intact. It sounds a bit like Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a unique physics sim with a similarly expendable blue-collar starship salvager that is currently in Early Access.
Mickey7 hasn't yet been published, but it's expected to early this year. As Deadline points out in its report, Bong Joon Ho's adaptation may well be a very different take on the novel's story.
Bong Joon Ho found international success with Parasite, a story of a poor Korean family who manage to work their way into the employ of a rich household, with horrifying results. In our review, we described Parasite as a "film that sneaks up on you," opening as a dark screwball comedy and graddually becoming a tragedy.
Parasite swept the Oscars in early 2020, and Bong has been weighing his next project ever since. Bong has previously worked on movies such as The Host, a film in which a fictional monster wreaks havoc on the people of Seoul.
As for Pattinson, he will soon star in The Batman, which is ramping up for a Spring release. It will be out on March 4.
Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN.
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Pattinson appears set to play Mickey7, an expendable colonist who is sent on suicidal missions that no one else will take. If Mickey7 dies, then a clone is generated with most of his memories intact. It sounds a bit like Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a unique physics sim with a similarly expendable blue-collar starship salvager that is currently in Early Access.
Mickey7 hasn't yet been published, but it's expected to early this year. As Deadline points out in its report, Bong Joon Ho's adaptation may well be a very different take on the novel's story.
Bong Joon Ho found international success with Parasite, a story of a poor Korean family who manage to work their way into the employ of a rich household, with horrifying results. In our review, we described Parasite as a "film that sneaks up on you," opening as a dark screwball comedy and graddually becoming a tragedy.
Parasite swept the Oscars in early 2020, and Bong has been weighing his next project ever since. Bong has previously worked on movies such as The Host, a film in which a fictional monster wreaks havoc on the people of Seoul.
As for Pattinson, he will soon star in The Batman, which is ramping up for a Spring release. It will be out on March 4.
Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN.
Continue reading...