Mickey 17: Last News

John Carpenter and Bong Joon-ho have agreed to work with each other on the latter’s new horror film.The two directors made the pact at a recent screening of a 4K restoration of Carpenter’s The Thing, as Bong teased one of his future projects.The Mickey 17 director said his “next next” project would be a horror and wanted his fellow director to do the score.“I wanna do your score,” Carpenter then interjected before the two agreed to the idea with a handshake.BONG X CARPENTER pic.twitter.com/TlHefx9FCP— karen han (@karenyhan) March 23, 2025Carpenter is well known for composing scores alongside his directing work, which includes classics such as Halloween, Christine and The Fog.Bong’s recently released his latest film Mickey 17, his first feature project since 2019’s Oscar-winning Parasite. The film stars Robert Pattinson as a disposable worker who is cloned each time he dies for research purposes.In NME‘s four-star review of the film, we said: “Above all, there’s an infectious warmth to proceedings that makes you stick with Mickey 17 (and 18) through thick and thin.

Parasite, director Bong Joon-ho has returned with a science-fiction comedy starring Robert Pattinson.Based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, the film follows Mickey Barnes who joins a space mission as an ‘expendable’. In this job, he’s given lethal assignments but everytime he dies, he’s ‘reprinted’ through cloning technology.Other members of the film’s cast include Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Holliday Grainger.This is Bong Joon-ho’s eighth film, following the likes of Okja, Snowpiercer, Mother, Parasite, and The Host.After a failed business venture leaves them on the run, Mickey Barnes (Pattinson) and his friend Timo (Yeun) sign up as crew on a space ship which is leaving Earth to colonise a planet called Nilfheim.

Mickey 17 and Parasite director Bong Joon-ho has said he would be open to making an Alien musical.Speaking in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, when asked about working on a blockbuster franchise like Star Wars or James Bond, he said: “I’m not drawn to franchise films, but I did think at one point that I would like to do an Alien film.”He then added: “An Alien musical.”The most recent movie in the long running franchise was Alien: Romulus, which was released last year and directed by Fede Álvarez. The film, which is set between the first two Alien films, featured highly in NME’s 20 Best Films of 2024.NME’s five-star review described it as being “as thrilling and scary as the original”, and “a movie that comes close to the brilliance of Ridley Scott and James Cameron”.A forthcoming TV series – Alien: Earth, which is set two years before the events of the original 1979 film Alien is also set to drop later this year on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK.Meanwhile, Bong’s latest movie Mickey 17, which stars Robert Pattinson, is released in cinemas today (March 7).The film, which is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, sees Pattinson play Mickey Barnes, a man who signs up to be an “expendable”, a human that can regenerate after death, but finds multiple versions of himself confronting each other after a space expedition goes wrong.

Friends recalls being shocked by a racist remarks on set.Stephen Park spoke as part of the Pod Meets World Podcast, a rewatch series for ’90s teen show Boy Meets World. As well as talking about his appearance on that show, he looked back at his time working on the American sitcom.Park featured in two episodes of Friends – season two episode 23 “The One with the Chicken Pox”, and in season three Episode 23, “The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion”. The episodes aired in 1996 and ’97 respectively.“It was at the time, I felt it was kind of a toxic environment,” Park said about the show.

Robert Pattinson has talked about how he has become more frightened of horror films as he has grown older, and revealed an extreme reaction to watching one particular film.The actor sat down for a conversation with his Mickey 17 director Bong Joon-Ho for GQ’s YouTube channel, and pondered his viewing habits over the years. He said: “I used to watch a lot of dark stuff when I was younger and think ‘yeah, this is cool’. And now, I’m too sensitive”.“It’s strange, you’d think it would go the other way round,” he continued.

Mickey 17 and Parasite, has named BLACKPINK as his favourite K-pop group.In support of Mickey 17’s upcoming premiere, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho recently made an appearance on the Buzzfeed YouTube series The Puppy Interview. During his time on the series, the director was quizzed about several things, including who his favourite K-pop group are.“BLACKPINK,” he answered.