Robert Pattinson, Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson star in Mickey 17 trailer

Alternating between suspenseful thrillers and big-budget, special-effects-fueled satires, Bong Joon Ho prepares his most ambitious sci-fi thingamajig yet. Mickey 17, the long-awaited, long-delayed successor to parasiteis finally hitting theaters. Warner Bros., who should be credited with releasing this film (we were getting nervous), will Mickey 17 in the United States on January 31, 2025, more than two years after the end of production.

It's hard to imagine what was troubling Warner Bros. Mickey 17 because it looks like a perfectly normal movie with a movie star imitating the usual Tobey Maguire accent. Pattinson plays Mickey 1 through 17, an aimless Earthling so desperate to leave his home planet that he signs up as expendable, a lowly laborer expected to die on the job only to be 3D printed back to life. While Mickey seems to have no problem dying for a living, things get a little complicated once there's overlap between the versions. When Mickey wakes up in bed with Mickey, instinct urges him to kill Mickey — behold: a supernormal two-and-a-half hour movie in which Pattinson regularly dies, or kills himself, or lets someone else kill him.

Bong is known for making such big twists. In between his Hitchcock satires, Bong has filled time with special effects spectacles that contain deep emotions, absurd humor, sociopolitical undercurrents and bizarre creatures. To that end, the $150 million film Mickey 17 seems to exceed the scale of Snowpiercer.

Last year, Warners Mickey 17 from a March release date to January. While that's rarely, if ever, a good sign, Warner stressed, “There's obviously enthusiasm for it.” We're guessing it's not the kind of enthusiasm that says, “We think this movie has awards potential,” which isn't a good sign considering Bong's last film was one of the best and most unlikely Best Picture winners of the past 25 years. Who can say? Bong has surprised us before.