Robert Pattinson stars in Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho’s next movie

Warner Bros. Pictures today confirmed that Snowpiercer The Host Bong Joonho, writer and director is currently filming his sequel to the Best Picture-winning 2019 class of satire Parasite. Robert Pattinson plays the lead role in the science fiction film Mickey 17. No summary of the movie’s plot was immediately available, but Warner Bros. reports that Bong wrote the script as an adaptation of the 2022 book Mickey 7By Edward Ashton. Alongside Mark Ruffalo, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s star will be co-starring Nope’s Steven Yeun, It is a hereditary matter Star Toni Collette Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s Naomi Ackie.

Mickey 7 centers on a cloned worker, called an “Expendable,” who becomes aware through multiple iterations of his life that he’s being sent on a series of highly dangerous missions because he’s easily replaceable. His replacement Mickey 8, arrives on the scene and he is able to return home after one of his missions. It’s a scenario that may immediately bring previous movies to mind for sci-fi fans — Duncan Jones’ Moon and Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion both feature “disposable” space workers learning unpleasant truths about their mission and their situation.

Given his tendency to put his life into films like this, Bong will likely give his take on the material. Parasite. (Look, he’s already added 10 whole-ass Mickeys to the equation.) Ashton’s scenario seems particularly well suited to a writer-director who’s consistently made movies about class and income inequity, society’s lower classes and outcasts, and the struggle to find justice and recognition in an imbalanced society. His idea of an employee who is destined to work for more wealthy people and then die in service of them seems very appealing. We’ll have to wait more than a year to see what his version of the story looks like, though. Mickey 17It is scheduled to be released worldwide on March 29, 20,24.