Robert Pattinson’s ‘absurd’ new film trailer has everyone calling him a ‘little sexual freak’

Robert Pattinson has blown fans distant erstwhile again with his quality to take the astir unexpected roles arsenic helium appears successful the caller sci-fi dystopian, Mickey 17.

Whether playing a sparkly vampire, a mysterious heron, oregon one of the astir celebrated superheroes successful the world – there’s precise small the 38-year-old Hollywood prima can’t do.

Despite the pugnacious contention (did we notation his stint arsenic a ‘vegetarian’ teenage bloodsucker?) his caller quality whitethorn conscionable beryllium his wildest yet arsenic helium plays a downtrodden spaceman who dies…. again, and again, and again. As the trailer aptly shows.

The movie – from acclaimed Parasite manager Bong Joon-ho – besides features a stacked formed including Beef’s Steven Yeun, Blink Twice histrion Naomi Ackie, and Oscar-nominated prima Mark Ruffalo, to sanction a few.

The movie follows the titular Mickey Barnes, an expendable abstraction colonist who indispensable undertake the astir unsafe tasks (aka termination missions) – and person a caller mentation of himself brought backmost to beingness each time.

But erstwhile aggregate versions of him abruptly beryllium astatine the aforesaid clip (namely Mickey 17 and 18), and instantly commencement clashing heads, each chaos breaks loose.

As the Oscar-winning filmmaker described astatine CinemaCon: ‘It’s a sci-fi movie, but it’s a quality story.’

The absurd, strange, and somewhat bonkers premise – truthful vividly brought to beingness by the actor’s jarring accent and full-hog committedness – already has fans successful a chokehold with the movie acceptable to travel retired aboriginal adjacent year.

‘Robert Pattinson playing a small freak. IN SPACE. I’m seated. The theatre employees are frightened and asking maine to permission due to the fact that it’s “not January yet” but I’m simply excessively seated,’ @kendallhosseini wrote connected X.

‘Robert Pattinson’s committedness to putting himself successful the astir absurd intersexual situations is to beryllium commended,’ @hunseckerproxy added.

‘Oh f**k yea Robert Pattinson’s playing a weird small feline again,’ @SoozUK said.

In particular, radical are genuinely caught up successful his caller accent tailored for the role.

‘I would emotion to spot each of Robert Pattinson’s characters successful 1 movie with each of their chiseled voices. His scope is INSANE,’ @cappucappu94 wrote.

But ultimately, everyone is agreed successful 1 opinion. That the Batman histrion is going to smash this retired of the park.

‘Bong Joon Ho knew that the lone idiosyncratic that could ever lucifer Robert Pattinson’s freak is Robert Pattinson,’ @jillianchilli posted.

‘Robert Pattinson erstwhile again proving helium tin beryllium a game-changing histrion is insane to maine beatified s**t,’ @jymwever shared.

The highly-anticipated movie has been met with terrible delays and was primitively meant to travel retired earlier this twelvemonth earlier yet confirming the January 2025 merchandise date.

The movie is based connected the publication by Edward Shaton.

British histrion Naomi opened up astir her observations of Robert’s process and what to expect from the movie successful a caller interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter.

‘He’s a thinker; helium thinks precise profoundly astir the relation and the publication and the structure, and we got to cognize each different that way,’ she said astir the Twilight actor.

‘It’s heightened emotions and tonally antithetic than what I’ve done before, truthful I’m rather frightened to spot it and hoping I balanced it right. But it’s each an experiment, right?’ she added astir Mickey 17.

Meanwhile, Bong chose Robert for the portion due to the fact that ‘he’s got this brainsick happening successful his eyes,’ according to Vulture.

Mickey 17 comes retired successful cinemas connected January 31, 2025.

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