Mickey 17’s first trailer is light in tone, heavy on dead Robert Pattinsons

It whitethorn person been delayed until adjacent year, but astatine slightest we now person our first look astatine Mickey 17. The debut trailer for the sci-fi movie — which is helmed by Parasite head Bong Joon-ho and stars Robert Pattinson arsenic Mickey Barnes — premiered Tuesday evening. According to the trailer’s description, Barnes “has recovered himself successful the bonzer condition of moving for an employer who demands the eventual committedness to the job… to die, for a living.”

The movie is based connected the caller Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, astir “a disposable worker connected a quality expedition sent to colonize the crystal world Niflheim.” The book follows the seventh incarnation of the titular Mickey, but it appears successful the movie he dies rather a fewer much times. In summation to Pattinson, it stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, and Thomas Turgoose.

Mickey 17 will beryllium Joon-ho’s first movie since Parasite successful 2019, and is slated to deed theaters connected January 31st, 2025.