Parasite Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho has found his next film. The filmmaker will direct an untitled sci-fi movie, with actor Robert Pattinson in talks to star, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The project will be based on Mickey7, a forthcoming novel from author Edward Ashton.
Mickey7 is described as Andy Wier’s The Martian meets Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter. It centers on Mickey7, a man on an expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. This expendable employee takes jobs too risky for anyone else, and when he dies he regenerates as a clone with most of his memories intact. When Mickey7 is presumed dead, he returns to the mission’sz base only to see that a new clone, Mickey8, has taken his place.
Bong will produce via his Offscreen with Dooho Choi for Kate Street Picture Company and Plan B, which produced his Netflix film, Okja (2017).
Bong was already a critically beloved filmmaker thanks to movies such as Snowpiercer (2013) when his dramatic thriller Parasite took the world by storm in 2019. The story about the twisted dynamic between two families under one roof won the Oscar for best picture, becoming the first non-English-language movie to win the award. Bong also won for best director and shared the prize for best original screenplay. The movie made $263 million worldwide and has a limited series for HBO in the works.
Pattinson will next appear in theaters in March with the anticipated The Batman, also for Warner Bros. The actor became world-famous in 2008 thanks to playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise and then spent years earning praise for indie roles in projects such as Good Time (2017) and The Lighthouse (2019) before stepping back into the blockbuster realm with Christopher Nolan’s Tenet in 2020.
Bong and Pattinson are repped by WME.
Deadline first reported the news.
Source: HollyWood
