Mickey 17 Director Bong Joon-ho's foot-smelling SF movie..a human film about the near future
Jan 20, 2025
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On the morning of the 20th, a press conference was held at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall in Ichon-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, for the current affairs and press conference of the science fiction film 'Mickey 17' (directed by Bong Joon-ho). The press conference was attended by Robert Pattinson, who plays Mickey, a consumable (expendables) who does all kinds of dangerous things, and director Bong Joon-ho.
Director Bong Joon-ho said, `A miserable main character appears. He is a character whose job is to die repeatedly. It's simply an extreme job. It is different from the cloned humans we have seen in SF. It's a story that prints humans. It's an inhumane act, not a political message. I think I can have fun watching Mickey's growth movie. In the original, I killed Mickey number 7, but in our movie, I killed number 10 more to make the 17th Mickey. I changed it like that because I wanted to express the feeling of a worker" There are authentic SFs like the "Dune" series, but we wanted to bring a closer future and create a humane SF. We also called 'foot-smelling SF'. It has brought about the future we are about to experience. I think half of my filmography was science fiction or something like that. It contains political satire and seems to be the charm of SF. There seems to be serious or humorous control over human society or politics. Mark Ruffalo, who has never played a villain in his life, also comes out as a new type of dictator. It shows dangerous cuteness. When I first received the scenario, I was also embarrassed. Didn't he always play a righteous role? I was embarrassed at first, but I acted happily."
A film adaptation of Edward Ashton's new novel `Mickey 7'Mickey 17 is a story about the unpredictable story of Mickey 18, who is reprinted when he dies as a consumable for dangerous work, thinking he is dead and printing Mickey 18 during his 17th death crisis. Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Tony Collette and Mark Ruffalo appeared, and Bong Joong-ho, the director of 「Parasite」, took the megaphone. It will be released in Korea for the first time in the world on February 28 and then in North America on March 7.
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