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Mickey 17

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Mickey 17 is a 2025 science fiction black comedy film written, produced, and directed by Bong Joon Ho, based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The film stars Robert Pattinson in the title role, alongside Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

Mickey 17 premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2025, before being theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in South Korea on February 28, 2025, and later in the United States on March 7. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $90 million worldwide.

Synopsis[]

Mickey 17, known as an “expendable,” goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.

Plot[]

In the year 2054, Mickey Barnes and his friend Timo are financially destitute after a failed business venture. Unable to repay a murderous loan shark, the pair flee by signing up as crew for a spaceship that leaves Earth to colonize the planet Niflheim — Timo as a shuttle pilot and Mickey as the spaceship's only "Expendable". Using Earth-banned technology to clone Mickey and restore his memories, Mickey is treated as disposable, given lethal assignments and regenerated after death. During the voyage, a romance develops between Mickey and security agent Nasha.

Four years later, the spaceship arrives at snowy Niflheim. Using several Mickeys sequentially, the spaceship's scientists develop a vaccine against Niflheim's pathogens. Mickey 17, the seventeenth Mickey iteration, is tasked to capture Niflheim's tardigrade-like lifeform ("creeper") for analysis. He falls into a fissure in the ice, beyond the reach of Timo, who leaves and reports Mickey 17's death. The creepers arrive and collectively push Mickey 17 out of the fissure.

Mickey 17 returns to the spaceship and meets the newly generated Mickey 18, who is more aggressive. As the expedition's leader, politician Kenneth Marshall, has vowed to kill any "Multiples" (simultaneously living clones), Mickey 18 tries to kill Mickey 17, who resists, suggesting that the Mickeys live by secretly rotating duties, meals and deaths. Mickey 18 then tries to kill Timo, but is interrupted and leaves with Nasha. Mickey 17 is brought to dinner with Marshall, his wife Ylfa, and security agent Kai. Mickey 17 suffers severe pain after being served experimental meat and being treated with experimental painkillers. Kai intervenes to stop Marshall from executing Mickey 17. Kai later woos Mickey 17, who flees.

Nasha learns of the Mickeys and accepts them both. Kai discovers the Mickeys and goes to report them, but is stopped by Nasha. When Mickey 17 informs Mickey 18 what happened at dinner, an enraged Mickey 18 decides to kill Marshall at a public ceremony commemorating a piece of Niflheim rock. Chaos ensues when two baby creepers emerge from the rock. Mickey 17 arrives and captures creeper Zoco, but creeper Luko jumps onto Marshall and is killed by Kai and other security agents. Nasha stops Mickey 18 from killing Marshall, who discovers the Multiples. Mickey 17, Mickey 18 and Nasha are arrested. Numerous creepers arrive outside the ship, calling out to Zoco.

In the brig, Mickey 17's description of the creepers helping him makes Nasha realize they are sentient. Timo tries to kill Mickey 17 to satisfy the loan shark, but Nasha and Mickey 18 overpower him. The Mickeys and Nasha are brought to Marshall, who wants to exterminate the creepers. Marshall destroys Mickey's stored memories, while Nasha saves Zoco from being executed by Ylfa. Marshall's assistant Preston persuades Marshall to task the Mickeys to compete in collecting creeper tails, which Ylfa wants for making edible sauce, with the winner being allowed to live. The Mickeys are forced to wear remote-detonated bomb vests to ensure their compliance.

When the Mickeys are sent out, they peacefully seek out the creepers' leader, which prompts Marshall to go outside himself with a security team, intending to personally kill the creepers. Using a translation device, Mickey 17 communicates with the creepers' leader, informing on Marshall's plan. The creepers' leader threatens to kill all humans, unless Zoco is returned alive and one human is killed in recompense for Luko's death.

Mickey 17 communicates to Nasha via camera to free Zoco. Nasha takes Ylfa hostage to ensure Zoco's release. Nasha releases Ylfa, who tries to kill Zoco, but Nasha again saves him. The security agents arrest Ylfa. Nasha returns Zoco to the creepers' leader, while Mickey 18 fights Marshall. Mickey 18 detonates the bomb planted on his vest, killing himself and Marshall to fulfill the demand by the creepers' leader.

In the aftermath, Ylfa commits suicide in a psychiatric ward, while Preston and other Marshall collaborators are imprisoned. An associate of the loan shark tries to kill Timo, but Timo manages to kill him. Nasha is later elected as a colony political leader. She officiates a groundbreaking ceremony on Niflheim, where Mickey 17 (now "Mickey Barnes") detonates the cloning device to symbolically end the Expendable program.

Cast[]

  • Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes
  • Steven Yeun as Timo
  • Michael Monroe as Matthew
  • Patsy Ferran as Dorothy
  • Cameron Britton as Arkady
  • Christian Patterson as Chainsaw Guy
  • Lloyd Hutchinson as Underboss
  • Samuel Blenkin as Borrower
  • Ian Hanmore as Darius Blank
  • Sabet Choudhury as News Reporter
  • Tim Key as Pigeon Man
  • Rose Shalloo as The Supporter
  • Bronwyn James as Receptionist
  • Holliday Grainger as Red Hair
  • Milo James as Young Kid
  • Naomi Ackie as Nasha Barridge
  • Daniel Henshall as Preston
  • Mark Ruffalo as Kenneth Marshall
  • Toni Collette as Ylfa Marshall
  • Jude Mack as Girlfriend
  • Thomas Turgoose as Bazooka Soldier
  • Adam Colborne as Gate Agent
  • Tom Cawte as Prison Guard
  • Anamaria Vartolomei as Kai Katz
  • Ellen Robertson as Jennifer Chilton
  • Sam Woodhams as Quartermaster
  • Kayla Meikle as Flitter Driver
  • Haydn Gwynne as Congresswoman
  • Edward Davis as Alan Manikova
  • Theo Ogundipe as Police Detective
  • Jamila Wingett as Stage Manager
  • Spike White as Committee Chairperson
  • Steve Park (credited as Stephen Park) as Agent Zeke
  • Angus Imrie as Shrimp Eyes
  • Afolabi Alli as First Marshall's Agent
  • Anna Mouglalis as Creepers' leader (voice)
  • Auguste Bartninkaite as Mechanic (uncredited)
  • Ricarda Clay, Valerie Hazan & Robert James Smith as Convention Attendee (uncredited)
  • Eleanor Daniels as Engineer (uncredited)
  • Liam Edwards as Police Officer (uncredited)
  • Johnny Li Gotti as Pilot (uncredited)
  • Chelsea Li & Stuart Whelan as Detective (uncredited)
  • Riccardo Mazzi as Scientist (uncredited)
  • Kenny-Lee Mbanefo as Ship Receptionist (uncredited)
  • Emily Tebbutt as Technician (uncredited)

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References[]

  1. ↑ Mickey 17 (15) (January 20, 2025).
  2. ↑ Mickey 17 (2025-02-15).
  3. ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specifiedJung, H.-B. (2025-02-22). .
  4. ↑ Mickey 17. IMDb.
  5. ↑ Mickey 17 (2025) – Financial Information. Nash Information Services, LLC.

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