Warner Bros. Discovery will release “Mickey 17,” an original sci-fi melodrama by Bong Joon Ho, on March 29, 2024.

The ‘Parasite’ filmmaker’s next feature, which became the first non-English language film to win the Best Picture Oscar of 2020, stars Robert Pattinson (“Twilight,” “Tenet”), Steven Yeun (“Minari ,” “No”), Naomi Ackie (“The Score”, “I want to dance with someone”), Toni Collette (“The Sixth Sense”, “In Her Shoes”, “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” ) and Mark Ruffalo (“You Can Count On Me”, “13 Going On 30”, “Zodiac”, “The Avengers”). It is produced by Dooho Choi, Boon Joon Ho, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner.

While no official guidelines have been offered, the film is based on Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7,” which is about an expendable — and employed in a human expedition sent to colonize a world of ice. After a version dies, a new body is regenerated with most of its memories intact. The brief teaser offered below by Warner Bros. sees Robert Pattinson as, presumably, Mickey7 or Mickey19 brought back/rebuilt/etc. after a fatal accident. Watch a teaser of the film at the top of this article.

The film will mark Ho’s eighth directorial effort, and his third English language feature following Netflix’s 2017’s “Okja” and 2014’s cult hit “Snowpiercer” which was distributed in North America by the Weintstein Company and went on to spawned three seasons. -and-counting TNT television broadcast. Inasmuch as “Snowpiercer” was, like “The Host” (an original monster melodrama/environmental parable that got a minor domestic release from Magnolia in 2007), a CJ Entertainment film, “Mickey17” will mark the first English film of the legendary filmmaker. linguistic feature film with a conventional Hollywood studio with theatrical leanings.

“Mickey17” will open in the middle of a crowded March alongside (at the time of this writing) Warner Bros. “Godzilla and Kong,” Paramount’s “A Quiet Place: Day One,” DreamWorks’ “Kung Fu Panda 4,” Disney’s “Snow White,” Universal’s “The Fall Guy,” and, on the same opening day from March 29, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.”

Considering the recent handful of high-profile filmmakers and executives like Walter Hamada, Chris Nolan and James Wan who have pitched their tents elsewhere, “Mickey17” will be a chance for Warner Bros. Discovery by David Zaslov to show that they can still grab and hold big-name filmmakers, and (as was the case with the producers of “Crazy Rich Asians” refusing mad netflix money) a chance to show that the prestige of theatrical exhibition can still attract the best and the brightest.

It will also be a chance for Pattinson, already recognized as an interesting actor by moviegoers and critics while being crowned “star” among the perpetually online, to be able to be a value-added commercial item even without the Batman costume.