Robert Pattinson's latest relation successful the forthcoming film, Mickey 17, has sparked a frenzy among fans, with the trailer racking up 10 cardinal views connected Youtube wrong conscionable 2 days.
Slated for merchandise connected January 31, 2025, the sci-fi flick is based connected Edward Ashton's novel, Mickey 7 and boasts a star-studded formed including Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things). The crippled revolves astir Mickey Barnes (Pattinson), a dispensable idiosyncratic who continually dies and is cloned - hence wherefore R Patz keeps gathering his extremity successful the trailer.
With specified a high-profile formed attached to the eagerly awaited film, it's casual to place the ground-breaking South Korean manager astatine the helm, Bong Joon Ho. Born successful Daegu, South Korea successful 1969, Bong began his filmmaking travel successful the 1990s astatine the Korean Academy of Film Arts, creating abbreviated films.
Two of these shorts, Memory successful the Frame and Incoherence, were aboriginal chosen for screening astatine the Vancouver and Hong Kong planetary movie festivals. His vocation has since skyrocketed connected a planetary scale, culminating successful him bagging 4 Oscars.
Here's a little overview of immoderate of his astir important works to familiarise you with the filmmaker earlier the premiere of Mickey 17.
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PA Photo/Curzon Artificial Eye)Parasite (2019)
Parasite, the movie that catapulted manager Bong Joon-ho into planetary fame, dominated the 2020 awards play and made past arsenic the archetypal non-English-language movie to clinch the Best Picture grant astatine the Oscars. The affectional infinitesimal was captured connected camera arsenic his wife, Jung Sun-young, was seen shedding a teardrop pursuing the announcement, reports the Daily Star.
The movie besides bagged awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature.
The film, 'true' to Bong's signature style, delves into analyzable themes specified arsenic people disparity, societal inequality, and corruption. While it's champion to spell into the movie blind, Bong himself described it arsenic 'a comic and scary movie', during a chat with Jimmy Fallon.
Okja (2017)
Released connected Netflix, Okja tells the communicative of a young miss named Mija (played by Ahn Seo-hyun), who embarks connected a ngo to prevention her genetically engineered ace pig, Okja, from a greedy corporation. The movie features an all-star formed including Tilda Swinton arsenic a ruthless CEO, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun, and Paul Dano.
The touching communicative addresses issues of carnal cruelty and nutrient accumulation ethics.
Snowpiercer (2013)
Snowpiercer, Bong's archetypal English-language film, earned the manager captious acclaim, including a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score. Set successful a post-apocalyptic frozen world, connected a bid that ne'er stops moving, the movie offers crisp commentary connected wealthiness disparity.
Chris Evans takes the pb successful this futuristic thriller alongside co-stars Tilda Swinton and Song Kang-ho. The film, which was adapted from a graphic caller written by Jacques Lob, was aboriginal adapted into the now-beloved TV series.
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AFP via Getty Images)The Host (2006)
Early successful his career, Bong took a stellar plaything astatine the monster movie genre with The Host. An illustration of Bong's emotion for genre-bending, the movie focuses connected a household trying to prevention their girl from a mutant carnal that has risen from the Han River successful Seoul.
The movie mixes elements of satire, household play and fearfulness and is 1 of South Korea's biggest box-office hits.
As with each of the director's works, Mickey 17 is expected to beryllium a fascinating ticker with thoughtful societal commentary.