Meet Pattinson’s Mickey, who keeps dying on the job, only to be reprinted on new bodies by his bosses.

Robert Pattinson’s next film has a lot of Robert Pattinson in it. As the first trailer for Mickey 17 In the series, Pattinson plays a character who is repeatedly cloned as he explores the dangerous terrain of an alien planet. Every time Mickey dies, a new one is created with all the memories of his predecessors – and he dies a lot. In this trailer alone, we see him drowning in ice-cold water, falling into a frozen ravine, and being shot, to name just a few examples.

“Hey Mickey, what’s it like to die?” several other characters ask throughout the new trailer. But despite his extensive experience with the phenomenon, Mickey has no answer. At least repetition doesn’t make it any easier. “Even the 17th time I do it, I hate dying,” Mickey says.

“Hi Mickey, are you feeling dizzy?” asks an automated female voice, to which Mickey replies, “I think I’m a little dizzy,” just as his hand is severed by space debris and just floats on past a window full of other astronauts drinking coffee. No big deal. And that’s exactly what Mickey’s repeated deaths mean: no big deal to anyone except Mickey. The trailer also shows Mickey, who laments how much he hates dying, finding another Mickey and discovering that this one is one of several.

Adapted from the science fiction novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 is the first film by South Korean director Bong Joon Ho since the Oscar-winning phenomenon of 2019 parasiteIt marks Bong’s return to both an international cast (which, in addition to Pattinson, includes Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Ackie and Toni Collette) and the science fiction genre (which he previously directed with Snowpiercer), after parasite was an original, contemporary story featuring exclusively Korean actors.

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Just looking at the titles, you can see a clear difference between Mickey7 And Mickey 17. The number in his name refers to the number of times Mickey, known as the “expendable,” has died and been reincarnated in a new body, so everyone can keep track. “I’ll kill him 10 more times,” Bong said at CinemaCon earlier this year to explain the title change.

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But we shouldn’t necessarily take the title as final, either. Pattinson was also at CinemaCon in April to preview the film alongside Bong. There, he talked about the challenges of making each Mickey unique and seemed to hint that there might actually be more than 17 clones.

“Mickey 17 is someone who has the lowest expectations of his life, and yet the world keeps pushing those expectations further, to the point where he has a job that tortures him every day,” Pattinson said at the time. “And then 18 comes along and he has frontal lobe damage and no self-control, his libido is out of control. It’s like playing an evil brother or twin.”

After playing vampire Edward Cullen in the dusk Movies, Pattinson recently returned to blockbuster filmmaking with 2022’s The Batmanand is set to reprise his role as the Dark Knight in a superhero sequel planned for 2026. But he clearly hasn’t lost his penchant for quirkier genre projects like this one.

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“I’ve been Bong’s biggest fan for many, many years; he’s my hero,” Pattinson said at CinemaCon. “I thought the script was highly unusual, bizarre and funny.”

Mickey 17 hits theaters on January 31, 2025. Watch the new trailer above.

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