Bong Joon Ho, the Oscar-winning director behind Parasite and Snowpiercer, is bringing Mickey 17 to the big screen, an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s existential sci-fi novel Mickey7. Starring Robert Pattinson, the film explores themes of identity, cloning ethics, and human resilience. Here’s everything you need to know about the Mickey 17 movie, its cast and characters, and the novel that inspired it.

Plot of Mickey7

Mickey7 is a sci-fi novel set in a dystopian future where human clones, known as “Expendables,” are used for high-risk tasks in colonization missions. The story follows Mickey Barnes, the seventh iteration of an Expendable, stationed on the ice-covered planet Niflheim. His job involves undertaking deadly assignments, after which his consciousness is uploaded into a new cloned body.

The conflict arises when Mickey 7 is presumed dead, leading to the creation of Mickey 8. However, Mickey 7 survives and returns to the colony, setting up an existential crisis.