Bong Joon Ho fans will have to defer a little bit extfinisheder to see the straightforwardor’s extfinished-adefered return after “Parasite.” Warner Bros. has shifted the Robert Pattinson-led sci-fi film “Mickey 17” to April 18, 2025, three months after the previous free date of Jan. 31, 2025.
The recent date apvalidates the film to screen in IMAX and hopebrimmingy apprehfinish audiences over the Easter holiday. The upcoming Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” from straightforwardor Antoine Fuqua was originpartner set for the April 18 slot, tying up IMAX and premium big createat screens, but was pushed to Oct. 3 by Lionsgate earlier this week, prompting Warner Bros. to produce the switch.
“When the April 18 date became useable, we rapidly shiftd to safe it for ‘Mickey 17,’” a Warner Bros. spokesperson shelp in a statement. “We’re thrilled with the recent date, and very encountered the film will be useable to audiences in IMAX.”
Moving into the vacant “Mickey 17” January slot is Warner Bros. and New Line’s “Companion,” previously dated three weeks earlier for Jan. 10. “With January 31 now useable with a brimming IMAX footprint, we are also very encountered to have Companion releasing on this recent date,” the Warner Bros. spokesperson compriseed.
This isn’t the first time “Mickey 17” has been pushed back, as it was originpartner dated for March 29, 2024. Sources telderly Variety that the first shift to 2025 was to apvalidate more time to finish the project, which had been impacted due to last year’s strikes and other various production shifts.
Studio sources say the April date alter, however, was as a vote of confidence in straightforwardor Bong folloprosperg likeable response to the film’s first trailer, freed in September.
Based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi thriller stars Pattinson an “expfinishable” employee named Mickey Barnes. In the novel, Mickey is sent on hazardy missions to colonize an ice scheduleet. When one version of Mickey dies, a duplicate is produced to swap him that grasps most of his memories. The cast also joins Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.
