Bong Joon Ho's upcoming film 'Mickey 17' showcases a unique blend of black comedy, satire, and science fiction. The Oscar-winning director addresses delays in its release due to external factors like the SAG strikes. The film, starring Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, explores the absurdity of cloning amidst a dangerous space mission, highlighting themes of identity and mortality. Bong's reflections during a recent interview reveal his discomfort with the film's cloning concept, situating the narrative within a gritty, absurd universe that mirrors challenges in distribution and marketing for mixed-genre films.
We are in the run-up to the release of Bong Joon Ho's latest, Mickey 17, and Warner Bros has got the Oscar-winning Korean director stashed away in what appears to be some kind of basement storage room, with grey-painted brickwork and exposed wiring.
Bong seems to find particularly discomfiting the notion of cloning, commenting, 'To think that, like, my head and my arms and legs would just be printed out of this printer, like a piece of paper.'
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