Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ delayed to April 18, 2025.
Bong Joon Ho’s first feature since his Oscar-winner “Parasite” (2019), is “Mickey 17", starring Robert Pattinson. Warner Bros has shifted the film’s release date for the third time so far. It wrapped production in November 2022, and was filled with rumors of reshoots, studio intervention and final cut preferences. But Bong Joon Ho recently stated in an interview that the rumors are false, and that Warner Bros. gave him the final cut of the film.
Mickey 17 was first scheduled to release on March 29, 2024, then later Warner Bros. pushed the date by almost a year to January 31, 2025. (the dumping grounds). The new date was not a good sign for the big budgeted film, with some people perceiving the date as the studio not having enough confidence in the film.
Until yesterday, when Deadline reported that WB has pushed the release date for the third time to April 18, 2025 (Easter weekend). This is a good news for Bong’s film as it moves away from the dumping months of January.
The April 18 date used to belong to Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic “Michael”, but Lionsgate pushed the date to October 3, 2025. Warner decided to snatch up the vacant slot for ‘Mickey 17’. Bong’s film will have all the IMAX screens around the world for the movie.
Warner Bros. always had the Easter date on hold for an untitled ‘event film’; the studio enjoying big weekends over the holiday frame with movies like “Godzilla X Kong”, “Ready Player One” and the biggest Easter weekend opener of all-time, “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” ($181 million).
“Mickey 17” is based on the novel Mickey 7, but we made it Mickey 17.” Bong said at CinemaCon this past spring. “The number is the number of times he dies. I kill him 10 times more. It’s a story of a simple man. It’s a sci-fi movie. It’s hard to say sci-fi— it’s a human story".
Joon Ho’s previous directorial, 2019’s “Parasite”, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and four Oscars including Best Picture. The movie grossed $53 million in the States, one of the highest foreign languages movies ever in the U.S. and over $262 million-plus worldwide.
