Mickey 17

In the year 2050, Mickey Barnes and his friend Timo join a spaceship crew heading to colonize the ice-planet Niflheim, in order to escape a murderous loan shark. Timo becomes a shuttle pilot, while Mickey signs up as an "Expendable", an illegal process where he takes on lethal tasks and a new clone of him with restored memories is created after each death. During the voyage, a romance develops between Mickey and security agent Nasha.

Four years later, the spaceship arrives at snowy Niflheim. Using multiple iterations of Mickey, the ships scientists develop a vaccine for the planet's pathogens. The seventeenth Mickey is sent to capture a native lifeform dubbed "Creepers," but falls into a fissure, where Timo, believing him dead, reports it and leaves with Mickey's flamethrower, and the crew creates the Mickey 18 clone. However, the Creepers rescue Mickey 17, pushing him out of the fissure.

Mickey 17 returns to the ship, where he meets Mickey 18, a more aggressive clone. The expedition's leader, Kenneth Marshall, has sworn that in the event of "Multiples" of clones, all clones will be eliminated. As such, Mickey 18 attempts to kill Mickey 17, but Mickey 17 suggests they secretly rotate duties and deaths to survive. The two are interrupted when they witness Timo selling drugs made from flamethrower fuel. Blaming him for the situation that caused them to leave Earth in the first place, Mickey 18 tries to kill Timo, but relents when they are interrupted by Nasha. Mickey 18 leaves with Nasha, while Mickey 17 is taken to dinner with Marshall, his wife Ylfa, and security agent Kai. At the dinner Mickey 17 reacts severely to being fed experimental meat and painkillers. Kai rescues Mickey 17 from being executed and brings him to her quarters, but Mickey 17 flees back to Nasha when Kai attempts to seduce him.

Nasha learns of the clones and accepts them, but when Kai tries to report them, she stops her. When Mickey 17 informs Mickey 18 of the dinner incident, an enraged Mickey 18 decides to kill Marshall at a public ceremony commemorating a piece of Niflheim rock. Two baby Creepers, Luko and Zoco, emerge from a Niflheim rock. Mickey 17 captures Zoco, but Luko is killed by security when it attempts to jump on Marshall. Nasha stops Mickey 18 from killing Marshall, but with the Multiples exposed, Mickey 17, 18, and Nasha are arrested. Meanwhile, thousands of Creepers gather outside the ship, calling for Zoco. In the brig, Mickey 17's description of the Creepers helping him makes Nasha realize they are sentient. Timo arrives and tries to kill Mickey 17, revealing that the loan shark has an agent onboard who will kill him if he does not record himself dismembering Mickey. Nasha and Mickey 18 overpower him, but security intervenes and takes them all to Marshall.

Marshall wants to eliminate the Creepers, and destroys Mickey's memory backups to prevent his re-cloning. Ylfa convinces Marshall to make the Mickeys go outside and compete to collect Creeper tails, with the winner allowed to live. The Mickeys are fitted with remote-detonated bomb vests to ensure compliance.

Once outside, the Mickeys seek out the Creepers' leader. Marshall follows with a security team to eliminate them. Mickey 17 uses a translation device to warn the Creeper leader about Marshall's plan, and the leader demands Zoco's release and the sacrifice of a human in return for Luko's death. Mickey 17 urges Nasha to free Zoco. She takes Ylfa hostage to ensure Zoco's release, and security agents, secretly working against Marshall, arrest Ylfa. Mickey 18 detonates his vest, killing himself and Marshall to meet the Creepers' demands.

Afterwards, Mickey 17 and the rest of the humans make peace with the Creepers, Preston and Marshall's collaborators face justice, and Ylfa later suicides. The loan shark associate attacks Timo, but Timo kills him in self-defense and uses the incident to testify against the loan sharks. Nasha becomes the colony's political leader and, during a groundbreaking ceremony, Mickey 17, now just called "Mickey Barnes", destroys the cloning device, ending the Expendable program.

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• Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes / Mickey 17 / Mickey 18, an expendable employee on Niflheim on his seventeenth (later eighteenth) iteration
• Naomi Ackie as Nasha Barridge, a security agent and Mickey's love interest
• Mark Ruffalo as Kenneth Marshall, an egomaniacal failed politician with sinister designs for Niflheim
• Toni Collette as Ylfa Marshall, Kenneth Marshall's devious and controlling wife
• Steven Yeun as Timo, a pilot and Mickey's friend from Earth
• Patsy Ferran as Dorothy, a scientist
• Cameron Britton as Arkady, the head of the Science team
• Daniel Henshall as Preston, Kenneth Marshall's personal assistant
• Steve Park as Agent Zeke, the head of the Security team
• Anamaria Vartolomei as Kai Katz, a security agent
• Holliday Grainger as Red Hair, the head recruiter of the Niflheim expedition program
• Angus Imrie as Shrimp Eyes
• Tim Key as Pigeon Man
• Thomas Turgoose as Bazooka Soldier
• Ian Hanmore as Darius Blank
• Bronwyn James as Receptionist
• Samuel Blenkin as Borrower
• Anna Mouglalis as the voice of the Creepers' leader

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File:Bong Joon-ho and Robert Pattinson in South Korea for "Mickey 17".png and actor Robert Pattinson in 2025]]

A film adaptation of Edward Ashton's novel Mickey7 was announced to be in development prior to its publication in January 2022, with Bong Joon Ho writing, directing, and producing for Warner Bros. Pictures and Robert Pattinson in talks to star.{{cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |title=Bong Joon Ho Sets Next Movie at Warner Bros. With Robert Pattinson in Talks to Star |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bong-joon-ho-movie-robert-pattinson-warner-bros-1235157577/ |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |date=January 19, 2022 |access-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619112855/https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bong-joon-ho-movie-robert-pattinson-warner-bros-1235157577/ |url-status=live }} Charles Yu wrote additional literary material for the film.{{Cite web |title=Mickey 17 |url=https://directories.wga.org/project/1245423/mickey-17 |access-date=October 7, 2023 |publisher=Writers Guild of America West |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102045204/https://directories.wga.org/project/1245423/mickey-17 |url-status=live }} Bong was intrigued by the concepts presented in the book, though he made many changes to the characters, including modifying Mickey's personality to be a little more simple minded.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-25 |title=Interview – 'Mickey 17' Director Bong Joon Ho |url=https://pocculture.com/interview-mickey-17-director-bong-joon-ho/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250226031208/https://pocculture.com/interview-mickey-17-director-bong-joon-ho/ |archive-date=26 February 2025 |access-date=2025-03-02 |language=en-US}} He wrote the screenplay in 2021 based on an early draft of the book, and said that none of the characters portrayed were meant to be mirroring active politicians. Robert Pattinson was the first actor to come to mind for a performance that required dual roles, and he agreed immediately to take the role after being offered it.{{Cite web |last=Purnell |first=Kristofer |title='Goofy and incredible': Bong Joon Ho on tapping Robert Pattinson for 'Mickey 17' |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2025/03/01/2424882/goofy-and-incredible-bong-joon-ho-tapping-robert-pattinson-mickey-17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250301155456/https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2025/03/01/2424882/goofy-and-incredible-bong-joon-ho-tapping-robert-pattinson-mickey-17 |archive-date=1 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Philstar.com}} Pattinson improvised many lines as Mickey 18, who starts with an aggressive personality, then grows as a person who wants to protect 17.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-21 |title=[INTERVIEW] Bong Joon-ho explores human resilience with new film 'Mickey 17' |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2025/02/398_392640.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250221104849/https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=392640 |archive-date=21 February 2025 |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=The Korea Times |language=en}}

Bong storyboarded each sequence before filming.{{Cite web |last=Garcia |first=Bella |date=2025-01-26 |title=Mickey 17 Actor Recalls Bong Joon-Ho's Unique Filming Process During Robert Pattinson's Long-Awaited Sci-Fi Movie |url=https://screenrant.com/mickey-17-movie-bong-joon-ho-storyboards-unique-tim-key/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250126214441/https://screenrant.com/mickey-17-movie-bong-joon-ho-storyboards-unique-tim-key/ |archive-date=26 January 2025 |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}} Pattinson helped to revise part of the script to give what Bong described as "humor and knowledge of slang that I would have never come across otherwise." Pattinson also partially based his performance on Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber, citing similar comedic injuries. Bong maintained that he had final cut privilege, though there was a delay in the editing.{{Cite web |last=Bergeson |first=Samantha |date=2024-12-04 |title=Robert Pattinson Says Bong Joon Ho Is an 'Unusual' Director: 'Mickey 17' Felt 'So Impossible' to Make at the Start |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-unusual-director-mickey-17-1235072464/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204235713/https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-unusual-director-mickey-17-1235072464/ |archive-date=4 December 2024 |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} To differentiate the two main Mickeys, Pattinson changed his accent for each character, comparing them to Ren and Stimpy from the show of the same name. In the initial script reading, he imitated the voices of Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O from Jackass. Bong told him not to do the Steve-O impression.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-17 |title=Robert Pattinson Based His Mickey 17 And 18 Voices On Ren & Stimpy |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/robert-pattinson-mickey-17-voice-ren-stimpy-exclusive/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241112163954/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/robert-pattinson-mickey-17-voice-ren-stimpy-exclusive/ |archive-date=12 November 2024 |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Empire |language=en}}

Pattinson was confirmed to star in May 2022, with Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo joining the cast.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/bong-joon-ho-movie-naomi-ackie-toni-collette-mark-ruffalo-robert-pattinson-cast-1235028709/|title=Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette And Mark Ruffalo Join Robert Pattinson In Bong Joon Ho's Next Film At Warner Bros|date=May 20, 2022|first=Justin|last=Kroll|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=May 20, 2022|archive-date=October 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012182257/https://deadline.com/2022/05/bong-joon-ho-movie-naomi-ackie-toni-collette-mark-ruffalo-robert-pattinson-cast-1235028709/|url-status=live}} In July, Steven Yeun was added to the cast.{{cite web |last1=Kroll |first1=Justin |title=Steven Yeun Latest To Join Robert Pattinson In Bong Joon Ho's Next Film At Warner Bros. |url=https://deadline.com/2022/07/steven-yeun-latest-robert-pattinson-bong-joon-hos-next-film-at-warner-bros-1235059239/ |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=7 July 2022 |date=July 7, 2022 |archive-date=July 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711115407/https://deadline.com/2022/07/steven-yeun-latest-robert-pattinson-bong-joon-hos-next-film-at-warner-bros-1235059239/ |url-status=live }} Tim Key was cast after a phone call, as Bong wanted him specifically for a role. Production began at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden on August 2, 2022,{{cite web |last1=Daniels |first1=Nia |title=UK shoot gets underway on Bong Joon Ho's Mickey7 starring Robert Pattinson |url=https://www.kftv.com/news/2022/08/01/uk-shoot-gets-underway-on-bong-joon-hos-mickey7-starring-robert-pattinson |website=Kemps Film and TV Production Services Handbook |access-date=2 August 2022 |date=August 2, 2022 |archive-date=October 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014153302/https://www.kftv.com/news/2022/08/01/uk-shoot-gets-underway-on-bong-joon-hos-mickey7-starring-robert-pattinson |url-status=live }} and concluded in December 2022.{{cite web |last1=Staff |first1=Screen |title=2022 film and high-end TV productions shooting in the UK: latest updates |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/2022-film-and-high-end-tv-productions-shooting-in-the-uk-latest-updates/5171504.article |website=Screen Daily |access-date=November 14, 2022 |date=November 2, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107172517/https://www.screendaily.com/news/2022-film-and-high-end-tv-productions-shooting-in-the-uk-latest-updates/5171504.article |url-status=live }} Filming was finished in January 2023, with the director working on the ideal cut after.{{cite web|title=Why Warner Bros Shook Up Its Feature Exec Ranks As It Braces For An Auteur-Driven 2025 Slate|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=15 January 2025|access-date=15 January 2025|archive-date=15 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115153706/https://deadline.com/2025/01/warner-bros-executive-exits-2025-movies-1236256895/|url-status=live| url=https://deadline.com/2025/01/warner-bros-executive-exits-2025-movies-1236256895/}}

The film's creepers were designed by Bong and Jang Hee-chul, who has been collaborating with Bong to create monsters for his movies since The Host (2006).{{Cite news |last=Weiner |first=Jonah |date=2025-03-04 |title=The 'Parasite' Director Brings Class Warfare to Outer Space |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/magazine/bong-joon-ho-mickey-17.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250304125857/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/magazine/bong-joon-ho-mickey-17.html |archive-date=4 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

The VFX was done by Framestore, DNEG, Rising Sun Pictures, and Turncoat pictures.{{Cite web |last=Frei |first=Vincent |date=2025-03-14 |title=Mickey 17 |url=https://www.artofvfx.com/mickey-17/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=The Art of VFX |language=en-US}} DNEG handled all the sequences shot on the ice planet of Niflheim, and created the creepers.{{Cite web |title=Mickey 17 |url=https://www.dneg.com/our-work/mickey-17 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=www.dneg.com |language=en}}

A number of writers and critics have noted similarities to Hayao Miyazaki's first Studio Ghibli movie, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). Both movies feature misunderstood local creatures, who have some mystical powers. In the case of Nausicaa, it is the Ohm, who have a similar role as the Creepers, both as natives of the planet who are misunderstood by humans.{{Cite web |last=Billington |first=Alex |date=2025-02-15 |title=Berlinale 2025: Bong Joon-ho's 'Mickey 17' is Sharp Sci-Fi Wackiness {{!}} FirstShowing.net |url=https://www.firstshowing.net/2025/berlinale-2025-bong-joon-hos-mickey-17-is-sharp-sci-fi-wackiness/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=www.firstshowing.net |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-06 |title=‘Mickey 17:’ A comedy of clones and class conflict |url=https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/03/06/mickey-17-a-comedy-of-clones-and-class-conflict/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Annenberg Media |language=en}} Some critics have noted the Ohm visually are almost the same as the Creepers,{{Cite web |last=Goodsell |first=Luke |date=2025-03-12 |title=Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 |url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2025/03/12/bong-joon-hos-mickey-17 |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=The Saturday Paper |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ramnath |first=Nandini |date=2025-03-07 |title=‘Mickey 17’ review: A goofy romp through a future with multiple Robert Pattinsons |url=https://scroll.in/reel/1079952/mickey-17-review-a-goofy-romp-through-a-future-with-multiple-robert-pattinsons |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Scroll.in |language=en}} and some of the scenes are very similar.{{how|date=April 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Ladyfingers |date=2025-03-05 |title="Mickey 17" Movie Review |url=https://spotlightreport.net/featured/mickey-17-movie-review |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Spotlight Report |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Ki-hoon |first=Moon |date=2025-02-18 |title=Review: Hollow recursions of 'Mickey 17' |url=https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10422858 |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=The Korea Herald |language=ko}} Mickey as the main protagonist, plays a similar role as Princess Nausicaa, in trying to act as a go between with both races.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-24 |title=Before Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mickey 17’, Hayao Miyazaki Made a Studio Ghibli Classic That Has an Eerily Similar Theme |url=https://fandomwire.com/before-bong-joon-hos-mickey-17-hayao-miyazaki-made-a-studio-ghibli-classic-that-has-an-eerily-similar-theme/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=fandomwire.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Watkins |first=TanChun |date=2025-03-22 |title=If You Enjoyed ‘Mickey 17,’ You Should Check Out Hayao Miyazaki’s Thematically Similar Classic Streaming Now on Max |url=https://collider.com/mickey-17-hayao-miyazaki-nauscaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Collider |language=en}} Both films share the theme of man's destruction of the environment.{{Cite web |last=josh |date=2025-03-13 |title=Mickey 17 {{!}} Larsen On Film |url=https://larsenonfilm.com/mickey-17 |access-date=2025-04-12 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Brayton |first=Tim |date=2025-03-19 |title=Mickey 17 (2025) - Movie Review |url=https://www.alternateending.com/2025/03/mickey-17-2025.html |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Alternate Ending}}

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Jung Jae-il composed the film score in his third consecutive collaboration with Joon-ho Okja (2017) and Parasite (2019).{{cite web

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Mickey 17 premiered at the Leicester Square in London, United Kingdom, on February 13, 2025.{{Cite web |url=https://www.warnerbros.co.uk/news/articles/2025/01/21/mickey-17-world-premiere |title=WarnerBros.co.uk | Mickey 17 World Premiere |website=WarnerBros.co.uk }} The film was screened at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2025, before opening in South Korea on February 28, 2025, a week before its global rollout.{{Cite web |last=Keslassy |first=Elsa |date=2025-01-10 |title=Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17,' Starring Robert Pattinson, to Premiere at Berlin Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-robert-pattinson-berlin-film-festival-1236271799/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110205916/https://variety.com/2025/film/news/bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-robert-pattinson-berlin-film-festival-1236271799/ |archive-date=10 January 2025 |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |date=10 January 2025 |title=Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon-ho's 'Mickey 17' to Premiere in South Korea Ahead of Worldwide Release – Global Bulletin |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-korea-release-1236271637/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250111102535/https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-korea-release-1236271637/ |archive-date=11 January 2025 |access-date=10 January 2025 |website=Variety}}

The film was theatrically released in the United States on March 7, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures.{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=December 27, 2024 |title='The Batman' Sequel Heads To 2027, Tom Cruise & Alejandro G. Iñárritu Pic Sets 2026 Release, 'Sinners' & 'Mickey 17' Switch Places |url=https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-batman-2-tom-cruise-warner-bros-mickey-17-sinners-release-dates-1236242822/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227170309/https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-batman-2-tom-cruise-warner-bros-mickey-17-sinners-release-dates-1236242822/ |archive-date=December 27, 2024 |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} It was originally scheduled to be released on March 29, 2024, but was taken off the schedule due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.{{cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |title=Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17' Gets First Look, 2024 Release Date |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-release-date-1235450725/ |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |date=December 5, 2022 |access-date=December 6, 2022 |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205234303/https://variety.com/2022/film/news/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-release-date-1235450725/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/godzilla-x-kong-moves-up-release-theaters-mickey-17-delayed-1235783720/|title='Godzilla x Kong' Moves Up Release in Theaters to Late March, 'Mickey 17' Delayed|last=McClintock|first=Pamela|date=January 9, 2024|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=January 10, 2024|url-status=live|archive-date=January 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110000900/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/godzilla-x-kong-moves-up-release-theaters-mickey-17-delayed-1235783720/}} It was rescheduled for January 31, 2025 (where it would have opened three days earlier in South Korea), but was pushed back to April 18, 2025, to take advantage of Easter weekend and avoid competition with Dog Man, and finally to March 7, 2025, swapping the latter date with Sinners.{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Angelique |date=February 20, 2024 |title=Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17,' Starring Robert Pattinson, Moved to 2025 |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson-mickey-17-2025-release-date-1235917744/ |access-date=February 21, 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=February 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226093852/https://variety.com/2024/film/news/bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson-mickey-17-2025-release-date-1235917744/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|title=Bong Joon-Ho's 'Mickey 17' Going Earlier In Helmer's South Korea Homeland|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=13 March 2024|access-date=14 March 2024|url=https://deadline.com/2024/03/bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-korea-release-date-1235857927/|archive-date=June 7, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607103822/https://deadline.com/2024/03/bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-korea-release-date-1235857927/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=November 5, 2024 |title=Bong Joon Ho's Robert Pattinson Sci-Fi Movie 'Mickey 17' Now Blasting Off Easter Weekend 2025 |url=https://deadline.com/2024/11/mickey-17-release-date-robert-pattinson-1236169554/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241107123923/https://deadline.com/2024/11/mickey-17-release-date-robert-pattinson-1236169554/ |archive-date=7 November 2024 |access-date=November 7, 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

Mickey 17 was released on Digital HD on April 8, 2025,{{Cite web |date=April 1, 2025 |first=Tim |last=Lammers |title=Robert Pattinson's 'Mickey 17' Gets Digital Streaming Release Date |website=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/04/01/robert-pattinsons-mickey-17-gets-digital-streaming-release-date/ }} and will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on May 13, 2025.

{{As of|2025|04|15|df=US}}, Mickey 17 has grossed $45.9{{nbsp}}million in the United States and Canada, and $84.7{{nbsp}}million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $130.6{{nbsp}}million. With a combined $198{{nbsp}}million spent on production and marketing, it was estimated the film needed to gross $396–450{{nbsp}}million worldwide in order to break-even.{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=March 5, 2025 |title='Mickey 17' Will Be Tricky At Global Box Office With $45M Debut: Weekend Preview |url=https://deadline.com/2025/03/mickey-17-box-office-preview-1236312177/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250306175036/https://deadline.com/2025/03/mickey-17-box-office-preview-1236312177/ |archive-date=6 March 2025 |access-date=March 5, 2025 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} Variety later reported the film would lose Warner Bros. $75–80 million during its theatrical run.{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/mickey-17-losing-75-million-theatrical-run-1236342659/ | title='Mickey 17' Projected to Lose $75 Million in Theatrical Run |work=Variety |author=Brent Lang |author2=Rebecca Rubin |date=March 20, 2025 |access-date=March 20, 2025}}

In South Korea, the film opened on February 28, 2025, and scored the highest post-pandemic debut by Warner Bros., grossing $1.7{{nbsp}}million and surpassing the record previously set by Pattinson's 2022 film, The Batman.{{Cite web |last=Gant |first=Charles |title='Ne Zha 2' nears $2bn at global box office; 'Mickey 17' is top new title |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/ne-zha-2-nears-2bn-at-global-box-office-mickey-17-is-top-new-title/5202569.article#:~:text=Mickey%2017%20dominated%20the%20market,Warner%20Bros%20film%20since%202019. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250304040532/https://www.screendaily.com/news/ne-zha-2-nears-2bn-at-global-box-office-mickey-17-is-top-new-title/5202569.article |archive-date=4 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Screen Daily|language=en}} It went on to debut to $9{{nbsp}}million in its opening weekend.{{Cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |date=2025-03-03 |title=Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17' Dominates Korean Box Office |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-korea-box-office-1236325900/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250306193939/https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/robert-pattinson-bong-joon-ho-mickey-17-korea-box-office-1236325900/ |archive-date=6 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

In the United States and Canada, Mickey 17 was projected to gross $18–20{{nbsp}}million from 3,770 theaters in its opening weekend.{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=2025-03-05 |title=Box Office: Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson's Mickey 17 Targets $20 Million Debut |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/mickey-17-box-office-bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson-opening-weekend-projection-1236327328/# |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250306164428/https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/mickey-17-box-office-bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson-opening-weekend-projection-1236327328/ |archive-date=6 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} It made $7.7{{nbsp}}million on its first day, including an estimated $2.5{{nbsp}}million from Thursday previews.{{Cite web |last=Moreau |first=Jordan |date=2025-03-07 |title=Box Office: Robert Pattinson's 'Mickey 17' Makes $2.5 Million in Previews |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/box-office-mickey-17-previews-robert-pattinson-1236330624/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250307194246/https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/box-office-mickey-17-previews-robert-pattinson-1236330624/ |archive-date=7 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} It went on to debut to $19{{nbsp}}million,{{cite web |title=Domestic 2025 Weekend 10 |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W10/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250309224857/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W10/ |archive-date=9 March 2025 |access-date=March 12, 2025 |website=Box Office Mojo}} which Deadline Hollywood described as in-line with original sci-fi films, including Jupiter Ascending ($18.3{{nbsp}}million opening in 2015), Ad Astra ($19{{nbsp}}million in 2019), and The Creator ($14{{nbsp}}million in 2023). Because of the film's budget, the publication also projected that the film would not be immediately profitable for Warner Bros.{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=March 9, 2025 |title=Sad Weekend For Lofty Priced, Original Sci-Fi Fare With Mickey 17 Opening To $19M+, But Keep This In Mind… – Box Office |url=https://deadline.com/2025/03/box-office-mickey-17-1236313830/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250308010729/https://deadline.com/2025/03/box-office-mickey-17-1236313830/ |archive-date=8 March 2025 |access-date=March 9, 2025 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} In its second weekend, the film grossed $7.4{{nbsp}}million (dropping 61%), finishing third behind newcomers Novocaine and Black Bag.{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=March 16, 2025 |title=Novocaine With $8M+ Leads Lowest-Grossing Weekend Of 2025 To Date – Sunday Box Office Update |url=https://deadline.com/2025/03/box-office-novocaine-1236326472/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250314151437/https://deadline.com/2025/03/box-office-novocaine-1236326472/ |archive-date=14 March 2025 |access-date=March 18, 2025 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}{{cite web |title=Domestic 2025 Weekend 11 |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W11/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250316021729/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W11/ |archive-date=16 March 2025 |access-date=March 18, 2025 |website=Box Office Mojo}} It then made $3.7{{nbsp}}million in its third weekend, finishing in fifth.{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W12/|title=Domestic 2025 Weekend 12|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=March 25, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2025/03/box-office-snow-white-1236346253/|title=Ho-Hum, Ho-Hum: Snow White Opens To $43M — What Poisoned This Princess At The Box Office – Sunday AM Box Office Update|date=March 23, 2025|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=March 25, 2025}} It dropped out of the box office top ten in its seventh weekend.{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W14/|title=Domestic 2025 Weekend 14|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=April 18, 2025}}

File:Mark Ruffalo (36201774756) (cropped).jpg plays Kenneth Marshall, whom critics have observed to parallel real-world authoritarian figures.]]

{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|77|7.1|319|Mickey 17 finds Bong Joon Ho returning to his forte of daffy sci-fi with a withering social critique at its core, proving along the way that you can never have too many Robert Pattinsons.|ref=yes |access-date=April 18, 2025}} {{Metacritic film prose|72|60|ref=yes |access-date=March 20, 2025}} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it 4 out of 5 stars, with 63% saying they would definitely recommend the film.

Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph awarded the film 4 stars out of 5, noting: "As in much of Bong's work, its chop-and-change attitude to genre keeps his audience on their toes. The film veers from slapstick to absurdism to horror and back again, often within a single shot, such as the regular sight of the latest Pattinson clone flopping out of the meat printer with a sausagey flumph."{{Cite news |last=Collin |first=Robbie |date=2025-02-15 |title=Mickey 17: Robert Pattinson is a hangdog delight in this enjoyably mad sci-fi confection |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/mickey-17-review-robert-pattinson/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250219221729/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/mickey-17-review-robert-pattinson/ |archive-date=19 February 2025 |access-date=2025-02-26 |work=The Daily Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}} Jacob Oller of The A.V. Club called the film "An unwieldy, long-winded, wildly entertaining sci-fi critique of our dehumanizing present."{{Cite web |title=Wacky, angry, shaggy sci-fi Mickey 17 works its underclass to the clone |url=https://www.avclub.com/mickey-17-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312060952/https://www.avclub.com/mickey-17-review |archive-date=12 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en-US}} In his review for NPR, critic Justin Chang wrote that the film's satire "wears awfully thin", but that "Bong is one of the few filmmakers who can work at this scale, with elaborate production design and intricate visual effects, and still retain his artistic signature."{{cite news |last=Chang |first=Justin |author-link= |date=7 March 2025 |title=Live, die, repeat: Bong Joon Ho offers a farcical vision of the future in 'Mickey 17' |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5316334/mickey-17-review-bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250307172527/https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5316334/mickey-17-review-bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson |archive-date=7 March 2025 |access-date=15 March 2025 |work=NPR |language=en}}

A less enthusiastic review came from Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair, who deemed the film a "disappointing follow-up to Parasite", while stating: "Perhaps if Bong had focused on the clone idea, more intricately exploring the corporate world's annihilating treatment of workers, he could have arrived at something rattling, even profound. Alas, he is ultimately too enamored of his wiggly animal creations, and by the broadest of jokes about TV camera-obsessed petty tyrants. In all its diminished attention span, Mickey 17 plays less like a new declaration from a great master and more like a feverish TikTok 'doom scroll' leading nowhere."{{Cite web |last=Lawson |first=Richard |date=2025-03-05 |title='Mickey 17' Is Like a Bad Clone of 'Snowpiercer' |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/mickey-17-bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson-movie-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250306043210/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/mickey-17-bong-joon-ho-robert-pattinson-movie-review |archive-date=6 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}

Jocelyn Noveck of the Associated Press gave the movie 2 stars out of 4, saying that although having Pattinson's character repeatedly die is an interesting plot-device, and the highlight of the film, that "much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess."{{cite web |last1=NOVECK |first1=JOCELYN |title=Movie Review: Always time to die? In 'Mickey 17,' Robert Pattinson just can't manage to stay alive |url=https://apnews.com/article/mickey-17-movie-review-robert-pattinson-1c15b89b206a6a6030f17f04423e59ca |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250306014739/https://apnews.com/article/mickey-17-movie-review-robert-pattinson-1c15b89b206a6a6030f17f04423e59ca |archive-date=6 March 2025 |access-date=6 March 2025 |website=Associated Press|date=March 5, 2025 }}

Kenneth Marshall, the spaceship captain and politician played by Mark Ruffalo, has been interpreted by some critics as a caricature of authoritarian leaders.{{cite web |last1=Suderman |first1=Peter |title=Mickey 17 Is a Misbegotten Sci-Fi Trump Satire |url= https://reason.com/2025/03/07/mickey-17-is-a-misbegotten-sci-fi-trump-satire/ |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250310194907/https://reason.com/2025/03/07/mickey-17-is-a-misbegotten-sci-fi-trump-satire/|archive-date=10 March 2025 |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Reason|date=March 7, 2025 }}{{cite web |last1=Pitman |first1=Robert |title=Is Mickey 17's Villain A Parody Of Donald Trump? |url= https://screenrant.com/mickey-17-villain-donald-trump-parody/|url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250310102112/https://screenrant.com/mickey-17-villain-donald-trump-parody/|archive-date=10 March 2025 |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Screen Rant|date=March 7, 2025 }}{{cite web |last1=Woo |first1=Jae-yeon |title=Bong, Ruffalo on 'Mickey 17' antagonist: archetypal dictator, not based on real person |url= https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250220005500315?section=culture%2Fk-wave/|url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250223121349/https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250220005500315?section=culture%2Fk-wave/|archive-date=23 February 2025 |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Yonhap News Agency}} For instance, Polygon describes Marshall as "a distinctly Trump-like figure whose dangerous associations with religious zealotry and white nationalism are mere avenues to earn political credibility among his base."{{cite web |last1=Adlakha |first1=Siddhant |title=Mickey 17 hits all of Bong Joon Ho's obsessions, from Snowpiercer to Parasite|url=https://www.polygon.com/sci-fi/533621/mickey-17-hits-all-of-bong-joon-hos-obsessions-from-snowpiercer-to-parasite |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250310193206/https://www.polygon.com/sci-fi/533621/mickey-17-hits-all-of-bong-joon-hos-obsessions-from-snowpiercer-to-parasite |archive-date=10 March 2025 |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Polygon|date=March 10, 2025 }} Director Bong Joon Ho clarified that Marshall's character is not based on any specific individual but is "a mix of many different politicians" and "dictators that we have seen throughout history."{{cite magazine | last1=Wang | first1=Jessica | title=Bong Joon Ho says Mark Ruffalo's Mickey 17 villain isn't a Trump parody | url=https://ew.com/bong-joon-ho-donald-trump-inspired-mark-ruffalo-mickey-17-villain-11688849 |url-status=live | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250306183603/https://ew.com/bong-joon-ho-donald-trump-inspired-mark-ruffalo-mickey-17-villain-11688849 | archive-date=6 March 2025 | access-date=10 March 2025 | magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}

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