The already confirmed Robert Pattinson will lead the cast of ‘mickey7’, the film adaptation of Edward Ashton’s novel with the same title that Minotauro will publish in our country this June. The Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho will be its screenwriter and director, being the first film to shoot since the international success of ‘Parasites’. The South Korean filmmaker will also produce it through his Offscreen alongside Dooho Choi from Kate Street Picture Company and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner from Plan B, with Brad Pitt as executive producer. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, the name given to the company resulting from the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. completed on April 8, 2022. Let’s remember that said company is developing through HBO a television version of the aforementioned ‘Parasites’ that perhaps not by chance could star the aforementioned Mark Ruffalo. Said miniseries is being developed under the creative supervision of Adam McKay and Bong Joon Ho himself, and it will not be a remake but an original story that will take place in the same world as the 2019 film. Finally, we leave you with the official synopsis in Spanish of ‘mickey7’, although with Bong Joon Ho involved, it is unlikely that the future film will be an extremely faithful adaptation of it. Mickey Barnes is an Expendable, incarnated in the seventh replica of his body, who lives (and dies) surrounded from his fellow colonizers on Niflheim, a frozen and almost uninhabitable planet. Some consider him immortal. Others see him as a soulless monstrosity. For the past nine years he has performed all kinds of dangerous tasks and has been the guinea pig for experiments that test the limits of human endurance. He has sacrificed his humanity for the greater good. During a reconnaissance mission, Mickey7 is wounded and left to die. However, a species native to Niflheim rescues him. When he returns to base, Mickey7 runs into the next replica of him, Mickey8. Neither of them are willing to jump into the recycler, but if someone discovers that there are multiple Mickeys, they will both be euthanized and Mickey9 will never see the light of day. However, his premature twin brother is not the only secret that Mickey7 hides. He hasn’t uploaded a backup copy of his memories in a month, so his clone has no idea how close he’s been to dying or his encounter with the planet’s inhabitants. Mickey7 also doesn’t know how most of his earlier replicas died, and those deaths he remembers have left him traumatized and mistrustful of the colony’s mission. A mission that makes her question her morals and his mortal existence… over and over… and over.
