Mickey 17, the next movie from Parasite Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho, is making a premiere at Berlin Film Festival, Deadline has confirmed.
It’s not a world premiere, we hear. Mickey 17 could have a South Korea premiere before Berlin as its opens in Joon Ho’s homeland of South Korea on Feb. 28 before unspooling in the rest of the world a week later.
The $118M Warner Bros sci-fi movie starring Robert Pattinson recently had its domestic release date moved up from Easter weekend, April 18 to March 7.
Based on the the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 follows unlikely hero Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), who is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous —even suicidal — the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.
Joon Ho wrote and produced the pic through his company Offscreen in addition to directing. Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, and Dooho Choi of Kate Street Pictures are producers on the movie.
Variety first had the news about Mickey 17 premiering at Berlin. It was heavily speculated on Korean social media in recent days that the film would have a premiere at Berlin.
The full Berlinale lineup will be announced on Jan. 21. The fest runs from Feb. 13-23.
Pattinson previously delivered a hit to Warners with The Batman which grossed over $772M worldwide. Joon Ho’s Parasite grossed $53M domestic, north of $262M worldwide.
